Posts Tagged ‘France’
France/Germany Block FB’s Funny Money
France and Germany have agreed to jointly block Facebook’s new crypto- currency, Libra. According to Reuters, “In a joint statement, the two governments affirmed that “no private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations.” Bravo to France and Germany!
Read MoreThe Newest New Right
a. So there was a fascinating article in last month’s issue of the New York Review of Books, Two Roads for the New French Right by Mark Lilla. In it, Lilla looks at the French (and, by extension, European) New Right—that is, the populist or radical Right. (An aside, we come up with a “newer” New…
Read MoreVova, too small for his shapka?
by Colette Hartwich Editor’s note: Vova is the Russian diminutive of the name Vladimir. A shapka is a brimless fur cap. The Kremlin midget, Vova, in his psychotic efforts to become a Tsar and revive the Russian Empire may have gone too far. The non-fake facts on which the non-Russian specialists agree –…
Read MoreClaude Monet in Paris
Editor’s Note: Sometimes, in all the press of conflict, we forget what we’re fighting for—specifically, in a Trumpian age of vulgarity and greed, we defend what is beautiful, graceful, and wise. In the following essay, our Central European correspondent, Colette Hartwich, reminds us of that by directing us to a recent exhibition of the works…
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