Exciting Times and Gift Ideas
It’s on the radio, it’s in the papers, it’s probably on the television: the results of the COP21 is THE topic of conversation here. Along with the French regional election of course, where the socialist party elegantly moved out of the way in regions where it risked dividing the vote, potentially making room for far-right candidates.* What […]
Food and Focus
I was reading a piece in the International New York Times by Anand Giridharadas, and a phrase caught my eye. He likened the current moment in the U.S. to the Biedermeier era in Germany (1815-1848) when political participation was suppressed and people turned inward. “What will our grandchildren think of the extraordinary inwardness of […]
