Europe lives on
Paris – Brexit is a disaster for the United Kingdom. Given the risk that it will now lose Scotland and Northern Ireland to secession, the country seems to have accepted the idea of Great Britain turning back into “Little England.” Britain is that rare lion that chooses to become as small as a mouse.
4y ago
Reinventing the French People
It is accomplished…” In the years when I listened to music nonstop, the passage marked by those words was for me one of the most
6y ago
Emmanuel Macron and the post-revolutionary idea
No, Parisian voters are not “vomitatious,” as the pathetic Henri Guaino proclaimed Monday after losing his seat in the National Assembly.
6y ago
Another strange French disaster
The “hunger games” aspect of this French election cycle began on the left. President François Hollande was brought down by his own Socialist Party. Hollande's prime minister, Manuel Valls, became the second course at the cannibals' banquet.
7y ago
Bob Dylan and the literary idiot wind
Oh, the anger of the fusty at the announcement of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize! What an outcry from the academy – not the Swedish one,
7y ago
The Assad Dead End
Forget principles and morality. Forget, or try to forget, the quarter-million deaths for which Bashar al-Assad is responsible, directly or indirectly, since choosing to respond with violence to a peaceful uprising of the Syrian people.
8y ago
The New Moscowteers
They are the great many who simply ignore what motivates Putin's armed diplomacy (and not just in Syria): the desire to exact revenge on those who, in his eyes, were responsible for the Soviet Union's downfall.
8y ago
February 11, 2020
Europe lives on
Paris – Brexit is a disaster for the United Kingdom. Given the risk that it will now lose Scotland and Northern Ireland to secession, the country seems to have accepted the idea of Great Britain turning back into “Little England.” Britain is that rare lion that chooses to become as small as a mouse.
June 24, 2017
Reinventing the French People
It is accomplished…” In the years when I listened to music nonstop, the passage marked by those words was for me one of the most
June 17, 2017
Emmanuel Macron and the post-revolutionary idea
No, Parisian voters are not “vomitatious,” as the pathetic Henri Guaino proclaimed Monday after losing his seat in the National Assembly.
March 19, 2017
Another strange French disaster
The “hunger games” aspect of this French election cycle began on the left. President François Hollande was brought down by his own Socialist Party. Hollande's prime minister, Manuel Valls, became the second course at the cannibals' banquet.
October 21, 2016
Bob Dylan and the literary idiot wind
Oh, the anger of the fusty at the announcement of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize! What an outcry from the academy – not the Swedish one,
November 7, 2015
The Assad Dead End
Forget principles and morality. Forget, or try to forget, the quarter-million deaths for which Bashar al-Assad is responsible, directly or indirectly, since choosing to respond with violence to a peaceful uprising of the Syrian people.
October 29, 2015
The New Moscowteers
They are the great many who simply ignore what motivates Putin's armed diplomacy (and not just in Syria): the desire to exact revenge on those who, in his eyes, were responsible for the Soviet Union's downfall.
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