The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.

The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after country, appointing technocrats to take over and run countries for long periods. They did it in Greece; they did it in Italy; they considered it in other parts of Europe.

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.