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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...

history/opinion/society

Tom Wolfe and the Age of Self-Involvement

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Tom There’s writers in there like Pynchon. But if he were a realist. There’s thorough knowledge of American history and the people who wrote it down...

3D Glasses
art/history/opinion

A History of the Third Dimension: Past Future Visions of 3D in Movies

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

The future would be brilliant, glowing, and rich in color. The future would be lifelike on the screen as much as off. The future, Hollywood attempted – and atte...

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...

Wires That Bind - Image
history

Out Now Everywhere: My Book ‘Wires That Bind’

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

I am very happy to announce that my book Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920 is now available worldwide...

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...

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...

Lives of the Presidents, Cover
history/opinion/Uncategorized

There’s Precedent for All of This Except Everything

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Donald Trump will put all his business dealings in a blind trust. Except it’s not a blind trust, because it will be run by his kids. Not to worry. It̵...

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