I guess there's nothing really wrong with granting UNESCO World Heritage status to the German beer purity laws. I mean, whatever, I guess laws holding back the development of more interesting beer is some kind of heritage. But let's not overstate the case here: "If...
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Freshmen in the 15th century had it rough: "Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen. Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to.
Atrios asks a good question: Why do we still have 50,000 troops stationed in Germany? Is this a good use of resources?
From the "We are presenting a united front on Greek auster... wait, France? What the fuck are you doing?" file: German industry and politicians have attacked a proposed French warship deal with the near-bankrupt Greek government, according to the magazine Spiegel. State-owned French naval shipyard...
In the comments to yesterday's post on German Civil War reenactors, people mentioned Germans' love of westerns. This reminded of the remarkable box set released by First Run Features a.
Yoni Applebaum has an interesting piece on the popularity of reenacting the U.S. Civil War in Germany. While one might poo-poo any real analysis of this as being just Gone.
Quiggin on the end of the Great War: Despite the emergence of the ever-present nuclear menace, 1945 marked the low point of the 20th century in many ways. At least on the Western side, the peace settlement was far less draconian, and far more successful,...
I finally watched Valkyrie this week, and I ended up liking it a lot more than I expected. Unlike many critics, I thought that Cruise did a solid job as.
This is one reason why Europeans understand war differently than Americans: An Allied bomb left over from World War II has exploded in Germany, killing three military engineers who were.
Underlining this bit of nonsense about the Germans using submarine-towed V-2 launchers to attack the United States during World War II is the implicit assumption that the US is fundamentally unlike other countries, and that piercing US immunity to attack is somehow catastrophic to the...
To be a bit more sympathetic than Yglesias, I think that Krugman's argument on Poland might most profitably be put into this form:A Poland with sensible institutions wouldn't have suffered.
The obvious move here is, as I suggested last year, to recast Arminius as proto-AIDS activist. Suddenly, Germany has the world's most progressive and forward-thinking national hero. I don't see.