Monatsarchive: Mai 2018

‚A most terrible thing has happened. The King of Yugoslavia has been assassinated.’ ‘Oh, dear!’ she replied. ‘Did you know him?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘Then why,’ she asked, ‘do you think it’s so terrible?’ Her question made me remember that … Weiterlesen →

She reflects on the “anti-war” meetings that she has attended back home and echoes Orwell’s famous attack on the vegetarians, fruit-juice drinkers, sandal wearers, “escaped Quakers,” and other radical cranks by remarking on the eccentric dress of the women at … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: From leading columnists to frontline politicians, people are grappling with how to create space to talk about something other than Mueller. Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, said while print and digital news media have … Weiterlesen →

Instead of a Preface During the terrifying years of the Yezhov repressions, I spent seventeen months in Leningrad prison lines. One time, someone thought they recognized me. Then a woman standing behind me, who of course had never heard my … Weiterlesen →

BBC: Gaza violence: Fresh protests expected after deadly clashes … Fresh protests against Israel are expected in the Palestinian territories, a day after Israeli troops killed 55 people in the Gaza Strip. … The violence came as the US completed … Weiterlesen →

Die Zeit: Die Anerkennung dieser neuen Realitäten bedeutet übrigens keineswegs, dass mit Donald Trump nicht mehr gesprochen werden darf. Auch mit Wladimir Putin wird schließlich gesprochen. Aber mit Rivalen verhandelt man anders als mit Verbündeten. An die Stelle des Prinzips … Weiterlesen →

This is part of a complex used by the Nazis and then the Soviets for vehicle testing. Trees are growing right through the asphalt. I tried to imagine the forces necessary to smash this. This steel is like 20cm thick. … Weiterlesen →

Spiegel: Clever resistance is necessary, as sad and absurd as that may sound. Resistance against America. I am thinking this morning of the language of the US military, and the language of American adolescents of all ages as they hunker … Weiterlesen →

The German Navy was the dog in the night. It did not fight. —p. 403 I am picturing the Battle of Jutland, and thousands of predator ants clinging to a giant dog. Through the incessant crash and thunder the French … Weiterlesen →

If there has to be a choice between injustice and disorder, said Goethe, the German prefers injustice. Schooled in a state in which the relation of the subject to the sovereign has no basis other than obedience, he is unable … Weiterlesen →

The mood in Paris, Brussels and Berlin is reminiscent of the period just prior to the war in Iraq. Most of Europe refused to back the U.S. in that conflict, even if the British and the Italians joined then-President George … Weiterlesen →