Monatsarchive: Juli 2020

Thomas Frank: The gnawing anger beneath the pandemic is that democracy itself is being rewired in our absence. The system has failed us, the system is guaranteed to go on failing us, but while we the people are out of … Weiterlesen →

Los Angeles Times: I really love the lighting in this photograph. News of the Archdiocese of San Francisco has me wanting to read A Canticle for Leibowitz again. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has agreed to stop celebrating public Mass … Weiterlesen →

Former Polish territory sprouted extermination camps: Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibór, Treblinka, Majdanek, Birkenau. —M.R.D. Foot, Resistance, (London: Biteback Publishing Ltd, 2016), 458. This is the first time I recall seeing this phrasing. Foot is writing in the early 1970s.

In the third week of September 1939 Poland underwent its fourth partition: Germany annexed the whole of the Polish corridor, Danzig (for twenty years a free city) included; the province of Poznan; a large slice of Upper Silesia; and a … Weiterlesen →

Als Zarathustra dreissig Jahr alt war, verliess er seine Heimat und den See seiner Heimat und gieng in das Gebirge. Hier genoss er seines Geistes und seiner Einsamkeit und wurde dessen zehn Jahre nicht müde. Endlich aber verwandelte sich sein Herz, … Weiterlesen →

Süddeutsche Zeitung: Today is July 2, 2020. This is the headline in the Politik section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.