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1. A little attracted, a little repulsed: Edward Said, the intellectually restless author of Orientalism, was an icon to the left and an irritant to everyone else

Author

Meaney, Thomas

Subjects
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said (Biography) -- Brennan, Timothy, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said Timothy Brennan Bloomsbury, 464pp. 25 [pounds sterling] I wanted to be the next Edward Said!' declares Farouq, a character in Teju Cole's [...]

Published
2021

2. Out of the past: Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens and the long road to reaction

Author

Meaney, Thomas

Subjects
Inside Story: A Novel (Novel) -- Amis, Marin, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Inside Story Martin Amis Jonathan Cape, 576pp. 20 [pounds sterling] It would hardly have surprised Christopher Hitchens, his unsanguine views of the afterlife under no bushel, that among the trials [...]

Published
2020

3. What Trump wants now: How misguided fears of a presidential coup exposed the hysterical thinking of the liberal Resistance

Author

Meaney, Thomas

Subjects
Contested elections, Presidential candidates -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Coups d'etat -- History -- Political aspects, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Is there any doubt that if Donald Trump had won the US election, sweeping all 50 states in a landslide, he would still have decried foul play? For half a [...]

Published
2020

4. The dark European stain

Author

Meaney, Thomas

Subjects
Populism -- Forecasts and trends, Fascism -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Faced with Trump and the populist nationalism sweeping the Continent, liberals are quick to proclaim the return of fascism. But other disturbing historical echoes are going unnoticed When the last [...]

Published
2018

5. The Reich without end: How Hitler's diehard adherents recast both Nazism and themselves at the end of the Second World War

Author

Meaney, Thomas

Subjects
The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present (Nonfiction work) -- Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

No phrase more distinctly captures the millenarian yearnings ordinary Germans pinned to Hitler's rise than the 'Third Reich'. Out of the ashes of the First World War and the Great [...]

Published
2019

6. Germany may pretend otherwise but it has reasons to fear a Europe without Britain: A country that long ago lost its taste for political gambles of the Cameron variety

Author

Meaney, Thomas

Subjects
Europe -- Political aspects, Germany -- Foreign policy, Emigration and immigration -- Forecasts and trends -- Political aspects, German foreign relations -- Forecasts and trends, Brexit -- Political aspects, Theft, British foreign relations, Novels, Market trend/market analysis, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

The best Brexit novel was written a little more than 50 years ago. It says something that John le Carre could take Britain's desperation to join the European Economic Community [...]

Published
2019

7. Living in a critical condition: From the Hitler Youth to 'constitutional patriotism', Jurgen Habermas at 90

Author

Meaney, Thomas

Subjects
Birthdays -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Philosophers -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Works, Newspapers, Patriotism, Ministers (Clergy), Youth, Anniversaries, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

In a country where anniversaries are drawn-out affairs, the 90th birthday of the leading German philosopher, Jurgen Habermas was not going to pass unmarked. The newspaper Die Zeit dedicated a [...]

Published
2019

8. Inside Europe.

Author

Meaney, Thomas

Subjects
*BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020, *INTERNATIONAL relations
Abstract

The article examines how Great Britain withdrawing from the European Union (EU) would impact Germany, noting concern among some German politicians that it will give too much power to southern EU countries.

Published
2019

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