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Showing posts with label european migrant crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label european migrant crisis. Show all posts
10 Aug 2018

From the Land of Cockaigne to the Big Rock Candy Mountains

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Land of Cockaigne  (1567)  Oil on panel (52 x 78 cm)   First conceived in the imagination of medi...
6 Mar 2017

On the Practical Idealism and Pan-Europeanism of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

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Count Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi  (1894-1972) One of the reasons that I dislike crackpot conspiracy theories in which no...
7 Jul 2016

Waiting for the Migrants (After Cavafy)

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Portrait of C. P. Cavafy: the Onassis Cultural Centre www.sgt.gr More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe by...
30 Jan 2016

Think of the Children

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Helen Lovejoy:  The Simpsons  Throughout the European migrant crisis, the Helen Lovejoys and Corbynistas of this world have continua...
22 Oct 2015

Simon Schama Versus Rod Liddle

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A furious Simon Schama finger-points at Rod Liddle on  BBC's  Question Time  (15 Oct 2015) and tells  him to stick to writing  his...
11 Sept 2015

Submission (On Christianity, Islam and the European Migrant Crisis)

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Cover of the Hungarian edition of  Michel Houellebecq's novel Soumission (2015) These are strange times indeed!  So...
5 Sept 2015

We're All Austrians Now (Reflections Beneath a Black Sun)

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No one knows for sure how the current migrant crisis in Europe will unfold or what consequences it might entail; as I have said elsew...
4 Sept 2015

The Second Coming (Notes on the European Migrant Crisis)

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Those politicians and commentators who insist that the European migrant crisis is a moral dilemma are naively mistaken, for there re...
14 Aug 2015

On the New Barbarians

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Riot police try to maintain order during a registration procedure on Kos.  Photo: Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters From where will ...