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☆ Opinion | The E.U. Is Revealing Its True Identity. Europeans Don’t Like It.
  + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Christopher Caldwell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In European Parliament elections this month, voters in most of the European Union’s 27 countries rallied to parties that hold the union in contempt. Analysts have leaped to the conclusion that the European Union must have done something wrong. In Germany, where a hard-right party anchored in the formerly Communist East got more votes than any of the three governing parties, voters cited highhanded energy policies. But the European Union’s governing machinery in Brussels is never where voters’ hearts and hopes are. The union is looking more and more like one of those 19th- and 20th-century projects to universalize the un-universalizable, like Esperanto.
Persons: Emmanuel Macron Organizations: European Union, Communist Locations: France, Germany, Communist East, Brussels, Esperanto
☆ The Prophetic Academic Emmanuel Todd Now Foresees the West’s Defeat - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Christopher Caldwell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Europe is “at risk,” he added, as he welcomed Ulf Kristersson, the prime minister of Sweden, the newest member of NATO. But Mr. Biden also said he remains “determined” that American soldiers will not be necessary to defend Europe. As a White House spokesman put it last week, it is “crystal clear” that the use of ground troops is off the table. But if such incursions were a genuine concern, then ground troops would be an option for the United States and its allies almost by definition. The rationale for NATO participation in the Russo-Ukrainian war is getting fuzzier at the very moment when one would expect it to be getting clearer.
Persons: Putin, Biden, Ulf Kristersson, Kristersson’s Organizations: ”, NATO, Europe, White, Russo Locations: Ukraine, Europe, Sweden, United, United States, Ukrainian
☆ Sahra Wagenknecht’s New Party in Germany Reveals the Strange State of the Left - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Christopher Caldwell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
On Monday morning, Sahra Wagenknecht, the most charismatic politician in Germany’s Left party, led an uprising against it. The Left party descends from Communist East Germany’s old ruling party, which Ms. Wagenknecht joined in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. To put it in crude American terms: It has become too woke for Ms. Wagenknecht. At a time of housing shortages and weak wage growth, the government’s unwillingness to stem the influx of economic migrants is “irresponsible,” Ms. Wagenknecht says. Ms. Wagenknecht faults her party not just for failing to oppose the government but also for bullying and belittling those citizens who do.
Persons: Sahra Wagenknecht, Wagenknecht, “, Ms Organizations: Left, Social Democrats, Greens Locations: Communist East, Germany’s, United States, Ukraine
☆ Opinion | Trucks, Cars, Bikes Battling for Space on City Streets
  + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “Online Retailers Are Taking Advantage of a Public Resource: City Streets,” by Christopher Caldwell (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 19):The reason those Amazon trucks are double parked is that the parking spaces are already full of private cars. Most private cars spend more than 95 percent of their life parked. For densely populated cities like New York, the delivery trucks are not the problem. It reduces congestion and is far more fuel-efficient, and by extension creates a much smaller carbon footprint. The delivery trucks will become even more efficient if they no longer have to sit in the congestion created by private cars and can more easily park directly in front of the delivery location.
Persons: Christopher Caldwell Locations: New York
☆ Opinion | Those Double-Parked Amazon Trucks Are More Than Just an Annoyance
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Christopher Caldwell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
But the public’s leverage is weak, the political dynamics are complex and the alternatives are fewer than they used to be. The upshot was an enduring advantage for internet retailers over bricks-and-mortar stores. Adding insult to injury, the big internet retailers have taken great advantage of a communal resource. The real estate that Amazon and other vendors require to make their deliveries is not private but public. We faced a smaller version of this problem with the surge of urban lunch trucks a decade ago.
Persons: ’, it’s Organizations: UPS, FedEx Locations: North Dakota, New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia
☆ Opinion | Trump’s Justices Didn’t Doom Affirmative Action. Demography Did.
  + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Christopher Caldwell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But it’s inadequate to describe why affirmative action is in danger. Affirmative action dates from executive orders issued by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. Giving a break to a few Black students might have meant denying a chance to the equivalent number of white students. But because white people constituted an overwhelming majority, the number of white applicants disadvantaged by affirmative action was relatively low. And advantages were being redistributed from descendants of the former oppressor race (white people) to descendants of the former oppressed race (Black people).
Persons: Donald Trump, John F, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson Organizations: Harvard Locations: Black
☆ Opinion | The First Scandal King Charles Could Face Is a Gift From Boris Johnson
  + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Christopher Caldwell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
At his coronation in London on Saturday, King Charles III will assume the ancient responsibilities of the British monarchy. But the list that the prime minister Boris Johnson compiled as he was being chased from office last summer threatens to become an inconvenience for King Charles — perhaps even a scandal. On his way out the door, Mr. Johnson reportedly assembled a list of lords- and ladies-to-be that stretched to almost 100 names — a historically large number. The list reportedly included three politicians who had shown unusual loyalty to Mr. Johnson. It has real political power, if not as much as the House of Commons.
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