What the Danish and European media misunderstand (and misrepresent) about America, and vice versa. And other stuff.
The hot-take out there in the wake of yesterday’s election in Italy seems to be that Europe is turning to the right. (Sweden did it! Italy did it! My god, it’s a pandemic!) I don’t believe any western European electorate ever really turns to the right: they just sometimes turn away from the left long…
My headline is my contention: the wild and hysterical extremism of the global left is the most destructive political force in the west. Let’s start with some definitions, in accordance with my old-fashioned notion that communication and understanding work best when people are talking about the same things. By “the global left” I mean the…
If there’s a single over-arching theme to the political thinking of western elites—you know, the GLOB—since the early 1990s, it’s wrongness. Try and think of a single major issue that our political and cultural establishment has gotten right since the Soviet Union collapsed. Something you can look back on and say, “Well, we can all…
There was a Johns Hopkins study that came out a while ago that concluded “that lockdowns in the spring of 2020 had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.” The study noted that this finding is against expectation (my emphasis): Despite the very low quality of evidence (see Table 1), early epidemiological studies predicted that…
Apart from a few articles about the Biden-Putin video conference the other day, most of them pretty matter-of-fact recitations of the White House and Kremlin versions of the conversation, Danish media has been very light on American political news lately. I’ll cut the Danish media some slack on this: there’s enough going on closer to…
It’s difficult, maybe impossible, to identify the historical moment one occupies. We’re all caught in the swirl of a thousand different currents at any given moment; the idea that we can somehow lift ourselves outside of it seems almost hubristic. But it’s worth a shot. So: in which age of man do we live? That…
DR had an article up this morning in anticipation of Joe Biden’s address to the UN: President Biden’s ‘America is back’ will be met with skepticism and sour faces at the UN General AssemblyLillian Gjerulf Kretz, DR, 21 September Lillian Kretz is DR’s USA correspondent, and the wife of Ace Correspondent Steffen Kretz. Half of…
I couldn’t resist the metaphorical implications of Salvatore Garau’s invisible statue yesterday, but over the weekend a much more practical story had broken and I’d intended to write about it before Io Sono didn’t catch my eye. So here we are, a day late and a dollar short: Will stop “the race to the bottom”:…
