Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
April 9, 1859: When Samuel L. Clemens got his steamboat license, 154 years ago today, he had no idea that he’d end up taking a common boatman’s call, Mark Twain, as his pen name.
Was sind die Ursachen für die gegenwärtige Krise? Seit ihrem Ausbruch 2007/08 werden die gleichen Erklärungsversuche bemüht. Sinngemäß lauten sie etwa so: Individuelles Fehlverhalten einzelner Personen oder Gruppen haben erst zu ihrer Entstehung, dann zu ihrer Ausbreitung und schließlich zu ihrer Verschärfung geführt. Mal sind die gierigen Banker, mal die faulen Südeuropäer und ein anderes Mal die von der Hyperinflation der Zwanziger Jahre traumatisierten Deutschen an der Misere schuld. Kapitalismus, so der Tenor, kann nur funktionieren, wenn sich die Wirtschaftssubjekte an die Spielregeln halten. Continue reading
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Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln”
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg‘s movie Lincoln narrates the last 4 months of the life of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of United States of America, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Sally Field as his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Radical Republican Congressional leader Thaddeus Stevens and David Strathairn as Secretary of State William H. Seward. It is his most ambitious venture into history since Schindler’s List (1993). Continue reading
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
April 5, 1859: After sitting on his controversial theories for two decades, Charles Darwin sent the first three chapters of his world-changing work, The Origin of Species, to his publishers, 154 years ago today.
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