Monatsarchive: Oktober 2018

Guardian: An Israel court has ordered two New Zealand women to pay damages for harming the “artistic welfare” of three Israeli teenagers after the pop star Lorde cancelled a planned performance in Tel Aviv. Judge Mirit Fohrer ruled that Justine Sachs and … Weiterlesen →

I am amazed that it is only at this very late date I’ve learned Stalin was the first editor of Pravda. (Plokhy, Yalta, London: Penguin, 2010, 57). I’d always thought of him as an untutored Georgian cobbler’s son, and, given … Weiterlesen →