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Central Government, Centralized Power, Democratic Socialism, Economics, Europe, Eurozone Crisis, George Soros, Government, Greece, Greeks, Monetary Union, Paul Krugman, Politics, Socialism, Spain

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, misattributed I had the extreme displeasure of reading Paul Krugman’s latest excretion today. He begins by complimenting (nay, sucking up to) the Greek people and ends by making a specious claim…

Kicking the Can

Jun 11, 2012

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Bailouts, Debt, Europe, Eurozone Crisis, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Spain

Saw the news today on Spain’s bailout. The market seems to favor this news. I don’t see how it can. We’re about to see the biggest market correction since the 30’s. And you thought 2008 was bad. There’s a very simple principle at play here. The more you borrow, the more you owe. If you…

Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric

Apr 23, 2009

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al-Andalus, Exile, Middle Ages, Origins of the Lyric, Philology, Shards of Love, Spain, Spanish Literature

María Rosa Menocal’s aim in Shards of Love is to trace the origins of what she deems the Romance philological tradition—a tradition steeped in myth, love, longing, and a conversation with the past in the form of memory. She traces this tradition to the medieval lyric, and thus tries to connect Western philology, in its modern…

Too Little Central Control in the EU?

Kicking the Can

Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric