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Forgetting to Fall Has Become Harder: On Writing in Pandemia World

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

“There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss” begins a memorable passage...

current affairs/history/methodology

Twitter Thread and Blog Post on the Folly of Comparing the American Left to Nazis

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

In August, I posted a long thread on Twitter regarding the problem of bad-faith distortions of history. It was set off by an especially egregious statement by D...

current affairs/history/interviews

Podcast Appearance – #KönigVonDeutschland

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Lutz Becker and Gunnar Sohn of #KönigVonDeutschland, a podcast about the many sides of, and issues related to the concept of utopia, recently spoke with me. The...

Dark Prospects. Storm Clouds over the Eiffel Tower. Photo by Benny Jackson.
current affairs/history/opinion/philosophy/society

Decide: The French Election and the Untenable Position of Abstention

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Slavoj Žižek bemoans in The Independent that the upcoming French run-off election means no choice at all because between Le Pen and Macron, the French people fa...

Europe's Ties. Photo by Andras Barta.
current affairs/history/opinion

The Center Must Hold for a Peaceful Europe

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Torsten Kathke / 1 Comment

It is not an exaggeration to say that with the upcoming French presidential election, the future of Europe hangs in the balance. To wit, Europe, not simply, not...

Johnson, McNamara, Rusk in July 1965
current affairs/history/opinion

Donald Trump Is No Lyndon Johnson

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

John Fund at the National Review recently compared Lyndon Johnson to Donald Trump. Citing also this blog, he argued that there were similarities between the two...

Candle Burning
current affairs/opinion/thoughts

Against Fear

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

What is terror, and who is a terrorist? The question comes up a lot these days. In Germany, the Berlin Christmas market attack was labeled a terrorist act prett...

Grundgesetz
current affairs/history

On Patriotism: How to Practice a Constitution

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Playwright Tony Kushner wrote of “beautiful systems dying, old fixed orders spiraling apart” in the 1990s, referencing the changes palpable at the e...

Normal
current affairs/history/opinion

Note to Self: Do Not Normalize the Trump Presidency

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

You’ve already heard and read much about what the stunning result of Tuesday’s U.S. election means. Opinions are about a-plenty, so I won’t ma...

Story 8
current affairs/history/opinion/philosophy/thoughts

After Trump, What Now? Tell True Stories Well

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

True stories save lives and change the world. Historians, cultural anthropologists and other students of the culture, ideas and inner workings of societies past...

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