Tagesarchive: Januar 7, 2017

Stop the Bombing

I am in Vietnam–who will console me? I am terrified of bombs, of cold wet leaves and bamboo splinters in my feet, of a bullet cracking through the trees, across the world, killing me–there is a bullet in my brain, … Weiterlesen

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The American Prism

Hartz noted in the mid-1950s that the distinctive American ethos he described can lead to either messianism or isolationism, with a tendency to oscillate between the two. „An absolute national morality,“ he wrote, „is inspired either to withdraw from ‚alien‘ … Weiterlesen

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