Sublime

In a series of long, drawn-out confrontations, 290,000 Germans would be called upon to fight. The spectacular climax of this was the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 where 500,000 people fought on all sides – the largest land battle in Europe before the twentieth century. Later dubbed the Battle of the Nations, it went down in German history as a

President Laval;

At present, it is far from clear whether Europe can find a middle path that will enable it to keep its gates open to strangers without being destabilized by people who don’t share its values. If Europe succeeds in finding such a path, perhaps its formula could be copied on the global level. If the European project fails, however, it would indicate

If there was a single moment in America’s history in which the slow slide of power—now in its fourth decade—from Capitol Hill to the White House suddenly became an avalanche, so that, for decades thereafter, governmental initiative came overwhelmingly from the Executive Branch, with the legislature only reacting to that initiative, it was that sess

The way to destroy all rules, he explained, was to focus on the idea of the exception. A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency. Citizens then trade real freedom for fake safety.

Après la sanglante défaite des spartakistes en janvier 1919, les Freikorps se lancent dans une marche à travers toute l’Allemagne : de Berlin ils passent à Brême, puis dans la Ruhr, puis à Munich où la République des conseils de Bavière est écrasée, puis à Chemnitz, à Hambourg…. Partout, les conseils ouvriers sont dissous, les grèves sont réprimées

Enough is the antithesis of unchecked growth because growth encourages mindless consumption and enough requires constant questioning and awareness.