So Guy de Maupassant and Paul Bourget not only share space in my dissertation, but also had the same Russian-Jewish lover. The rest of the a...
So Guy de Maupassant and Paul Bourget not only share space in my dissertation, but also had the same Russian-Jewish lover. The rest of the a...
Well good for them . Olive oil, sure, wine, why not, longevity, OK. No goats'-milk for me, thanks unless it's been turned into a che...
The best article ever: Kate Connolly of the Guardian reports on a coffee shop in Berlin that has banned, among other things, strollers: Ral...
Over at Commentary, Jonathan Tobin makes an argument I'm having trouble wrapping my head around: that the new wave of interest in banni...
Recently I noticed that a hair salon across the street sells this super-cool Berlin-based nail polish brand. Not available in the States! At...
-Unpaid internships: not just in the States, not just in glamorous professions . -A Brussels woman, Sofie Peeters, makes a documentary abo...
-From Slate France, the unsurprising connections between far-right politics (in France and Germany) and the local-sustainable food movement...
When I read about the German court that ruled against circumcision for religious reasons (i.e. as practiced by Muslims and Jews), I confess...
-The NYT had the good sense not to open up for comments its article about how The Jews are demographically inundating New York. -Sweden had...
I love that the woman profiled in that article about how French women are in fact capable of getting fat, or at least of worrying that the...
The NYT Style magazine is evidently gearing up (sorry) for a bicycle-themed issue, given how many of its recent posts are biking-themed. As...
Charles Murray, over truffles, a gin-brand-specified martini, and a $100-plus bottle o' wine, complains , “'[I]n academia their [eli...
When the rest of socially-liberal American womankind was still worried that we were looking at a Santorum presidency (or are we still?), I w...
Reading the Forward , the following quote, from an expert in this area, jumped out : "'[T]he fact that 20% of Germans have anti-Sem...