When asked what was the greatest political fact of modern times, Bismarck is reported to have responded, that it was “the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English.”
~ George Louis Beer
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Monthly Archives: January 2025
Campus Life at the
University of Missouri – Columbia
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It is with good reason that the economic historian Adam Tooze has castigated European Union technocrats as “the Taliban of neoliberalism” for their intransigent attachment to market principles in an age that has declared them obsolete. Jettisoning this dogma is crucial; loosening the fiscal rules for member states would facilitate economic catch-up, on the back of a serious strategy of public investment.
~ Anton Jäger via The New York Times
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Campus Life at
Durham University
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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
~ Milan Kundera
Campus Life at the
University of New South Wales
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My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
~ Diane Arbus
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Robert F. Kennedy’s has, rather ingeniously, situated himself at the intersection of the most important trends in American politics and society, including but not limited to post-COVID anger at government overreach, the polarization of vaccine skepticism, the rise of anti-institutional crusaders in the GOP, the emergence of performative health as a branch of pro-masculine politics, and the triumph of anti-elite elitism. His specific views may not deserve support. But his political style deserves attention.
~ Derek Thompson
via RFK Jr. Is a Bellwether
published by The Atlantic
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Happy Saint Knut’s Day
Wishing all of our readers in Sweden and Finland a very happy Saint Knut’s Day.
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