Monthly Archives: May 2019

Eric Alterman: …for the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college. With slightly more than twenty-four thousand current history majors, it accounts for between one and two … Continue reading →

Guardian: The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has abruptly cancelled a long-established plan to hold talks with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin, citing unspecified “international security issues”.… Norbert Röttgen, the chair of the German foreign affairs committee, … Continue reading →

,Ironie haben wir nicht‘ – rief Nannerl, die schlanke Kellnerin, die in diesem Augenblick vorbeisprang – ‚aber jedes andre Bier können Sie doch haben.‘ —Heine, Band 3 (wie Anm. 15), S. 320.

I posted one of Sawsan Chebli’s tweets a month ago. Yesterday Twitter blocked her account after she tweeted this: Twitter’s grounds were that Chebli was publishing “fake news” in connection with the EU elections. They have since re-enabled her account. … Continue reading →

Zeit Online: “Im ersten Jahr nach der Wende war noch Euphorie da, auf beiden Seiten, das waren ehrliche Gefühle. Im zweiten oder dritten Jahr war das schon verblasst.” “Hat im Dorf schon mal einer AfD gewählt?” “Klar.” “Echt?” “Klar. Auch … Continue reading →

»Schluck Tee oder Wasser ginge auch.« —Stefan Aust, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, (Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 2017), 516.