By William Osborne, guest blogger This spring the Vienna State Opera presented an exhibit exploring its collaboration with Nazism during the Third Reich. The International Herald Tribune published an excellent Associated Press article about it entitled “Vienna State Opera comes to terms with its purge of Jews 70 years ago.” The article begins this way: […]
Archives for May 2008
Having It Both Ways
Guess where this sentence is from: [T]he half-Kenyan-by-way-of-Hawaii candidate, who only recently completed a beer-and-bowling tour to impress blue-collar Midwesterners, has committed more fully to showing off his inner Jew. It comes from a front-page news feature in this morning’s New York Times. If I hadn’t read it myself over breakfast, I might almost have […]
What Barricades?
Read a book, see a flick, eat too much, drink plenty vino, keep my nose clean, and generally laze about. Such is the simple life. So I almost forgot to remember. Daniel Cohn-Bendit (once known as Danny the Red) put it this way the other day: Why not stop talking about May ’68? All I am hearing is […]