m on April 3rd, 2012

From the headline, “Eastern Europe’s Hitler nostalgia,” Michael Goldfarb’s cross-posted article in Globalpost and Salon (where I read it) feels like link bait. And maybe flame/trollbait. The subhead promises an article about “pro-Nazi sentiment” in “Lithuania and Latvia.” What follows is an article dispatched from, and largely about, Poland.1 It’s easy to say about an [...]

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m on March 6th, 2012

As far as I can tell, there are three men named Corentin (it’s a Breton name) who are memorialized in some way in (slightly greater) Paris: Corentin Cariou, Corentin Celton, and Corentin Cloarec. Cariou has a métro station and street named after him. Celton, a métro station and hospital. And Cloarec, a street. Corentin Cariou [...]

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m on January 13th, 2012

— Le vieux Paris n’est plus (la forme d’une ville Change plus vite, hélas! que le cœur d’un mortel Escúchela, la ciudad respirando In honor of an article I had run in The Classical, “Paris is Earning,” I watched Paris brûle-t-il ? earlier this week. The 1966 movie, with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola [...]

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m on December 20th, 2011

[I expanded and updated this on 21 December 2011, to organize the argument better and provide more background.] News has broken over the past week about the uncertain fate of Algirdas Paleckis, the head of the Socialist People’s Front, a party in Lithuania. Speaking on the radio in November of last year, he talked about [...]

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m on September 20th, 2010

I’ve written three things for Lithchat in the past few days that may be of interest to readers of this site, as well (it’s not 100% overlap, thank goodness!): On Mikutavičius, not singing “Trys milijonai,” and cultural patrimony discusses the mini-scandal that emerged when Marijonas Mikutavičius elected not to sing his sports anthem, “Trys milijonai,” [...]

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m on November 29th, 2009

Enjoying my final grasse matinée before knuckling down to get some writing done, I had a series of dreams circulating around Riunite wine. There were two narratives interleaved, Possession-style. In the first, French administrators were trying to figure out how to use the partially sparkling nature of Riunite as a weapon against the English in [...]

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