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Die Stunde der Erklärer

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Morgens die Pressekonferenz des Robert Koch-Instituts, mittags Nachrichten mit allerlei gesammelten Statements aus Ministerien, Ländern, Städten. Am Abend spric...

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...

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...

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640 ), The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1604/1605, probably reworked c. 1606/1608, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art.
art/opinion/society/thoughts

Art Is Worth Fighting For

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Science, we march for. The humanities, however, have not fared well lately. That is, the way we talk about the humanities has not been much in the way of apprec...

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...

Life on Mars?
opinion/thoughts

Life on Mars, 2016

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

We pick our heroines and our heroes and we pick our battles and our places to stand. We may be wrong in these choices sometimes, but if our compass is true then...

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...

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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