News Briefs Feb 16, 2009
February 16th, 2009
- Manx Gaelic revival in full swing.
- Samuel Huntington died a pariah among America’s intellectual elite. It’s because he was normal.
- A remarkable wide-ranging interview with the outgoing Archbishop of Westminster on the current global economic meltdown: “It’s the end of a certain kind of selfish capitalism.”
- Goethe the decentralist: “From the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia and until the Napoleonic wars, Germany had consisted of some 234 ‘countries,’ 51 free cities, and about 1,500 independent knightly manors. […] The Vienna Congress of 1815, which followed Napoleon’s defeat, saw the number of independent German political territories reduced to 39.”