washingtonpost.com > Opinion > Columnists > Anne Applebaum About This Columnist Anne Applebaum returned to Washington in 2002 after 16 years in Europe. She is a member of The Washington Post editorial board, and writes a column that generally appears on Wednesdays. She has a Web site at www.anneapplebaum.com . E-mail Applebaum at applebaumanne@yahoo.com . Recent Columns . . . Starting Among the 'Christophobes' (Post, April 20, 2005) The Drug Approval Pendulum (Post, April 13, 2005) How the Pope 'Defeated Communism' (Post, April 6, 2005) How We Die: Choice and Chance (Post, March 30, 2005) Writing Women Into a Corner (Post, March 16, 2005) Defending Bolton (Post, March 9, 2005) Snow Daze (Post, March 2, 2005) Missing The Point At Harvard (Post, Feb. 23, 2005) Shadow of the Files (Post, Feb. 16, 2005) 'Remembering' Philip Johnson (Post, Feb. 2, 2005) A Test on 'Tyranny' (Post, Jan. 26, 2005) Only a Game? (Post, Jan. 19, 2005) The Torture Myth (Post, Jan. 12, 2005) Does the Right Remember Abu Ghraib? (Post, Jan. 5, 2005) Russia's Last Stand (Post, Dec. 15, 2004) The Freedom Haters (Post, Dec. 1, 2004) The New Iron Curtain (Post, Nov. 24, 2004) In ATMs, Not Votes, We Trust (Post, Nov. 17, 2004) A German Lesson for Remaking Iraq (Post, Nov. 10, 2004) Accept the Verdict (Post, Nov. 3, 2004) © 2002-2005 The Washington Post Company