The land is civilized, free, prosperous, law-abiding, moderate and cautious. Its many virtues may be summarized as the “banality of the good.” Asked by the tabloid BILD-Zeitung what feelings Germany awakens inher, Angela Merkel once famously replied, “I think of well-sealed windows! No other country can make such well-sealed and nice windows.” Timothy Garton-Ash, “The […]
As the nightmare of the UK election unfolded, I headed to Beeler Gallery here in Columbus, Ohio for Instance No. 5 of Jo-ey Tang’s exhibition Follow the Mud – a screening of documenta 14 artist Michel Auder’s 1970 film Cleopatra amid an installation created by Michael Stickrod. I made a special Minus Plato edition for […]
“From a very literal point of view, the harbors and the ports and the railroads of the country – the economy, especially in the South – could not conceivably be what they are if it had not been (and this is still so) for cheap labor. I am speaking very seriously, and this is not […]
Oh happy, happy, happy me, I understand arseophony! Anyone who knows the ins and outs of a gnat’s arse is going to find it easy to get off a criminal charge. – Strepsiades in Aristophanes’ Clouds When our three Athenians in their tiny house are not working at their tedious day-jobs, spending their days-off sleeping […]