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“Sport has risen to the level of a world power, an authority that tends to obscure, overhang and infuse all activities in a society ravaged by the disarray of mutilated individuals, without any collective project. Sport has established itself as the spearhead of an army in battle order, which crushes anyone who is stupified by …
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Years ago I helped escort a group of schoolchildren to Paris and we enjoyed ourselves flying paper darts off the top of the Tour Eiffel. One landed on the steps of the Ecole Militaire. But then that was Paris, beautiful Paris, a joy to visit, stylish and architectural triumph. The Arcelor Mittal Orbit sits in …
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Adjusted for inflation, the median hourly wage in the USA was lower in 2011 than it was a decade earlier. Good benefits are harder to come by, and people are staying longer in jobs they would like to leave, afraid that they won’t find a better job. The USA has moved from once having the …
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In his 1821 Independence Day address to the U.S House of Representatives, John Adams said, America “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.” America will “commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.” …
“The philosopher A.C. Grayling has complained that the British live in a post-rhetorical culture… that British politicians talk in soundbites, and that we have to look to the US to find the tradition surviving… [Yet] the reasons Barack Obama can do what David Cameron can’t are fairly straightforward. At the risk of perpetuating a stereotype, …
