I went coast to coast, from Baltimore/Maryland to San Francisco/California. Was looking around a bit, talking to some folks, taking note of "the media" and enjoying the greatness of the place. The upshot of it all, as seen through a personal lens and processed in the...
It makes you wonder, who are the intellectuals here?
Donald Trump is winning, and his opponents are adrift. I had the chance to interview Joan Williams, expert on gender and class issues, about similarities between the far right in Europe and the US and priority-setting. Williams recommends that the opponents of the far right put the economic woes of the middle-class front and center. And that they watch their language.
In Atlanta
On the day the American Presdient had himself a military parade for his 79th birthday, large protest rallies took place in most American cities, two politicians were shot in Minnesota and Israel waged the second day of its second Middle East war, I was witnessing the...
«Our reputation, our image, our soft power as a neutral country have suffered since 2022»
Former Swiss Ambassador Jean-Daniel Ruch on Europe’s «strategic autonomy», the role of Switzerland and his criticism of Switzerland’s following the EU sanctions against Russia. Mr. Ruch, where in international politics do we find ourselves at the moment? Surely...
Late voting – a letter to the American friends
Hi there, I hope you are doing as well as we do. We just had an enormous blast of early snow, a foot or so in the lowlands. Behind the house, the kids are sledding like crazy, constantly chaperoned by worried housewives and their spouses (when I was young, fathers and...