February 2012
6 posts
Imported from Turin →
Feb 13th
Advance! →
Feb 13th
Feb 10th
Feb 9th
Feb 2nd
1 note
“[The British Treasury]: “an institution not often troubled by self-doubt;...”
– Philip Stephens, FT
Feb 1st
January 2012
14 posts
Victoria, Parte I →
Jan 31st
A Tale of Two Technocracies
My most recent (political) article on TNR on the comparative administrations in Rome and Athens.
Jan 30th
The Twilight →
Jan 30th
“Israel knows bread”
– RCK
Jan 30th
1 note
Jan 29th
Always a Worthy Question →
Jan 26th
“Queremos la revolución permanente - pero con un mes de vacaciones.”
– Peter Capusotto
Jan 26th
“You are not allowed to visit Pheasant Island, which lies near the Atlantic Ocean...”
– Borders in Europe are still real - but increasingly meaningless. Perhaps, soon, there will be no more. 
Jan 25th
1 note
Of Finance and Movies →
Jan 25th
Right or Wrong? (Wrong) →
Jan 23rd
“And here is a firm, still Standard and Poor’s, whose criteria of...”
– BHL has a point about finance - and S&P. Vive la France!
Jan 20th
1 note
“It is not the ratings agencies that dictate the policies of France.”
– Baroin, on a day to be ballsy like that. 
Jan 13th
“It is easier to divorce your wife than fire your employee [in Italy]”
– Italian entrepreneur
Jan 10th
2 notes
Gloire →
(Angela helps, sometimes)
Jan 10th
December 2011
16 posts
“This guy is like human fro-yo”
– Troy
Dec 25th
“For The Loved One. Something traditional, simple and classic that truly shows...”
– The Best Newspaper of 2011 - The Financial Times Courtesy of DV, its best reader of 2011
Dec 23rd
For Flying →
Or not. 
Dec 22nd
LGA-DFW-EZE
Dec 22nd
Dec 20th
A Philosopher-King →
Those were revolutions…
Dec 19th
The Rumors of the Euro’s Demise Are Greatly...
My piece this week for TNR - a special thanks to Cameron for the editing.  Another month, another EU Summit. And once again, markets are judgingthe compromise as, at best, incomplete—at worst, disastrously insufficient. On top of everything else, the new agreement has managed to formally isolate Britain from the other 26 EU member states. (British euroskeptics are applauding their country’s...
Dec 16th
Worth a Thought →
Dec 13th
WatchWatch
You mean the Malvinas?
Dec 11th
Punishment →
Dec 9th
“the waves bring back things we haven’t even lost”
– Amichai. Courtesy of SKM
Dec 8th
Culture Paradox →
Why does it look like 1992?
Dec 8th
“The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities...”
– David Foster Wallace Courtesy of FRG
Dec 6th
WatchWatch
Unreal. Courtesy of DNM
Dec 5th
“everyone loses power, eventually.”
– DV
Dec 4th
Dec 2nd
November 2011
34 posts
SKM on Immigration →
A great piece for TNR, by Sahil K. Mahtani, on one of Obama’s most egregious missed chances.
Nov 30th
Nov 30th
As Usual, Sensible →
Nov 29th
“Big writers become a kind of shared climate. Still, it is a little startling to...”
– Gopnik home run
Nov 29th
“But if the above is exact, if it is no accident that Rome and Athens are the two...”
– BHL, bien sûr.  La Victoire!
Nov 24th
Nov 23rd
“This bullet is an old one. “In 1897, it was fired at the president of Uruguay...”
– Borges, In Memorian JFK Like last year, like next year, this year. A poem to lost life.
Nov 22nd
2 notes
My Answer to Prof. Ignatieff →
on the FT.com today
Nov 22nd
Are Ponies Elitist? →
Nov 22nd
“why do germans always end up having the one powerful protagonist”
– JM
Nov 21st
Sous les pavés, recurring →
Nov 21st
Nov 18th
Despicable →
Nov 18th
“Have PhD, Will Govern”
– Amazing TE headline
Nov 16th