Welsh rarebit

Am I alone in thinking that the country overdoes it with the Churchillolatry?

Useful translation of what the slogan "sovereignty" actually means in current political discourse.

Agreed. The current war seems to be directed more against liberal culture ("wokeness") at home than against the external foe.

Wasn’t Schmitt more concerned with smiting the internal foe rather than with imperial conquest?

The quiet dark one, like Michael Corleone.

As with all these people, the worst thing isn't so much how terrible they are in themselves as that Americans tolerate them holding their vital positions.

Imagine his bafflement when despite all the wreckage the Iranians still refuse the unconditional surrender that he demands.

It's certainly consistent with what we know about Trump's personality. He's desperate to stay in office by any means legal or illegal, and he's fascinated by violence. Both are ominous signs.

Your kkk is apt. The main hold that the GOP has over its supporters is that they perceive it as the party that stands for white people and their interests.

In other words, he’s performing at expectation.

Can’t help wondering if the Iranians are getting advice from Russian intelligence officers about how to manipulate Trump. By now the Russians must have acquired a deep grasp of his psychopathology.

The voters saw and disapproved of the Jan6 insurrection but forgave Trump and re-elected him anyway. I suspect they’ll forgive him for this debacle as well.

The Golden Age comes with a price tag.

Many people were put off by Fukuyama’s title. If you read to the end he gives many reasons why a liberalism without external enemies is likely to tear itself apart.

“In America they haven’t used it (English) for years.”

Is there a modern equivalent for the “Parthian shot”?

Who’ll be the Camus to make him immortal?

Have to wonder, how does Putin’s performance look by comparison? Did he try to prepare the Russian public for what was coming?

More like the kind of “acte gratuit” that was a staple of existentialism. An action performed as a pure expression of freedom, without cause or objective let alone analysis.

They (the monarchy) got away with it for so long largely because of WW2 nostalgia. People’s feelings were grounded in memories of their stalwart performance during the Blitz, Elizabeth driving trucks etc. With her death the spell was broken and we see the survivors in the harsh light of day.

As Henry Higgins says, “Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak? Norwegians learn Norwegian, the Greeks are taught their Greek.”

I just looked it up. Fascinating. Of course I’m familiar with the nightmare-inducing properties of cooked cheese. Thanks.

A striking insight imho.

Outbreak of Peloponnesian War? Sparta (a land power) was bounced into war by its ally Corinth (a naval power) which resented Athens’ naval superiority.

Edgar Allan Poe vibes. The Masque of the Orange Death.

But he’s got plenty of secrets to conceal.

George, the German for war isn’t Kreig, it’s Krieg.

Edgar Allan Poe vibes. “The Masque of the Orange Death.”

Calling the nuclear umbrella a “parapluie” is delightful. I’m waiting for the young Catherine Deneuve to appear.

He should try defending it as what the existentialists called an “acte gratuit”, that is, an act without aim or purpose but performed as a pure demonstration of freedom.