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Macabre Adventures In Denmark

Posted 03.16.2012 | Arts
Read More: European Art, Macabre, Video, Herbert Von Garvens, European Culture, Contemporary Art, Dutch-Artists, James Ensor, Asger Jorn, Slidepollajax, Denmark, Museum Jorn, Arts News

Keeping company in the art world doesn't only lead to a nice leisurely lunch, it leads to whole movements; think of Braque and Picasso, or Rembrandt a...

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Notes of an Ex-Pat 1: View From the Bridge

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: American Culture, European Economy, European Culture, Ex-Pat, Fidesz, Financial Collapse, Rudeness, Lunar Eclipse Winter Solstice, Civility, Healthy Living News
W. Hunter Roberts

From my window I see sheets of ice floating down the Danube. It's mid-winter, and I am finally here in Budapest. Last week I went with a Hungarian law...

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Tony Judt's Testimony on his Jewishness

Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Jewish Identity, Jewish Liberals, European Culture, The Enlightenment, Hannah Arendt, Israel, Tony Judt, Jewish Right, Religion News
Carlo Strenger

Tony Judt has been called a self-hating Jew by some of his critics. In reality he was proud to continue the Jewish tradition of irreverent, independen...

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The Big Muslim Problem

The New York Review of Books | Malise Ruthven | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Islam, Islamic Immigrants, Books, England, European Culture, European Muslims, Immigration, Immigrants, New York Review of Books, Muslim Immigration, Muslims, Europe, Al Jazeera, Christopher Caldwell, Arab Immigrants, Nyr, Books News

Malise Ruthven The New York Review of Books "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West" by Christopher Caldwell Doubl...

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Altered States

Shana Ting Lipton | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Indian Art, Europe, European Culture, Euro, Healthy Living News
Shana Ting Lipton

As a dual European/American citizen, it's not that I want Europe to make mince meat of the U.S. I'm just suggesting that we take this opportunity -- this coffee break -- to reframe and get a little perspective.

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