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Are you only focusing on the economists that think tariffs will have an adverse effect?

Is there any long term good that can come from this? Or is that not what you're interested in?

I heard this a year or two back... where? I can't recall, but it was a Catholic podcast from someone who was a smaller channel, but reputable. Then I started hearing it more and more. From even larger Catholic channels. I know Matt Fradd had a section where it was briefly mentioned. But, in all of t...

.... until I spun off the interstate back in January of 2024. I live in Wisconsin and am well accustomed to driving in snowy, sloppy conditions. But January of 2024, late at night, I was heading back home on an interstate after visiting some friends up in my hometown. The roads were not even all tha...

I had David Blankenhorn‘s book defending real marriage “The Future of Marriage” published in 2007. He was an expert witness arguing for that via contra same sex marriage during the Proposition 8 farce… where Judge Walker ruled that Blankenhorn was not an expert on the matter and essentially waived o...

That’s incredibly hard to hear that weight. I can’t imagine a child being so flippant with their parents. I’ve mentioned it before, but both my parents died at a young age. Life was awkward at times with my mom’s drinking and my dad’s exhaustion in dealing with it. But what I would give for my kids ...

No problem at all.

The preface he writes to the book is short but amazing.

The book itself is one of the best I have ever read. Werfel does an incredible with the story.

Regarding his passage attempt through the Pyrenees he states: (We) had hoped to be able to elude them in time to cross the Spanish frontier to Portugal. But since the consuls unanimously refused the requisite visas, we had no alternative but to flee back with great difficulty to the interior of Fran...

Stefan Zweig and Franz Werfel were both brilliant Austrian writers whose lives were disturbed beyond recognition due to the rise, and efforts, of Hitler. They were friends as well. Zweig speaks of the intelligence and bravery of his friend Franz Werfel. Both became exiles... several times over. Both...

Just days after a stunning public clash with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today underscored that he wants to "make things right" with Trump and wanted to work under his "strong leadership" to secure a lasting peace in Ukrai...

There are so many fine descriptions of momentous events in this book... one in particular is when Emperor Karl and Empress Zita leaving Austria by train after the monarchy collapsed. But this one really stood out. Interestingly, Zweig is telling of his trip to Soviet Russia in which he expresses amb...

Poland’s democracy hero Lech Wałęsa and dozens of other former political prisoners in Poland have written a letter to President Donald Trump, telling him that his treatment of Ukraine’s president at the Oval Office last week filled them “with horror and distaste.” Wałęsa, who served as president so...

I had never heard of him before. I see there’s a movie from 2020 about him. I’m going to watch this. Thanks for the suggestion.


I think the guy I’m trying to remember is Arthur Koestler.

Lammasch confides to Zweig that Emperor Karl (gotta get Charles Coloumbe in here) had expressed a desire to end Austria’s involvement with the war even if that meant leaving Germany on its own: "No one can blame us for disloyalty," he said in firm, decided tones. "We have suffered ove...

Zweig has received permission to leave his post at the War Archive to help put on his play Jeremiah (named after the prophet) in Switzerland. Zweig mentions how during WW1 (more so than during WW2) the various countries still wanted to show that they were culturally rich and not simply militarist. S...

Thanks for the name. I'll look into this.

But there were definitely some charges made at the Webbs when this person came back.

I wish I had more info... Some Western intellectual who was on the side of the Webbs initially - goes to see the new happenings in Russia and comes away nowhere near as exuberant and cheerful as the Webbs and I believe even called them out in the press as outright lying or at least sacrificing their...

Does anyone know the prominent figure who visited Russia after the revolution who wrote how what he saw disgusted him and made him question his previously held views on socialism and communism.

I think it was after the Webbs made their visit and came back with glowing tales of peace on earth.

Then go to God with your anger. Any father (and if God is truly the Father) would rather have his child come to him with his anger than to have that child turn away. I understand the brokenness you feel. I believe to some extent any one of us can. However, not everyone bears the same burden in life....

Zweig is working for the War Archive office, refusing to go to the front line (as requested by a few major newspapers), because he refuses to write any puff-pieces to cheer on the war effort, refusing to favor any side in the conflict. The War Archive wants him to collect "originals of all the ...

Zweig isn't hostile towards religion... but he is very indifferent towards it. He seems to be critical of tradition in general, but only when that tradition seems to thwart one's "good time". He appears to think that good relations between people just naturally bubbles up. Zweig was close ...