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Three Things: Brexit Battle over Britain

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Brexit has happened. Britain will be out of the EU. The people have spoken, what will follow now is just the business of a lot of i-dotting on new contracts as ...

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These Untied States: Thoughts on History and Brexit

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 1 Comment

This morning my first thought was about Erwin Schrödinger. The man with the thought experiment cat, you will recall, which owing to the intricacies of quantum p...

Celebrity Candidate
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The Donald and His Discontents​

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 1 Comment

”We” live in Trumpy times, indeed. Caricature by DonkeyHotey (CC BY-SA 2.0) A quick note at the top: Donald Trump’s candidacy is obviously happening in th...

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The Power Conduit: Robert Caro’s LBJ

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 3 Comments

Robert Caro’s growing multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson is a lesson in how to do biography as history, and one in how power works in the American...

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Pilot

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

History is forever written with a pencil. Revision lurks behind its vision by necessity. Like chalk on a blackboard, sponge at the ready for after the bell ring...

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