If the rules of a language are FOLLOWED, words usually make SENSE. But these very rules can STIR the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey MEANING through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets HARDER to resist the temptation of nonsense.
Read MoreIf European monetary policy is run according to German interests, huge structural imbalances will accumulate. The Germans will then EITHER have to pay to correct those imbalances or AGREE that the euro should not be run primarily according to German interests. If they are unwilling to do either of those THINGS, the euro can't SURVIVE.
Read MoreDefenders of Wilson are correct to beg for context when CONSIDERING his legacy. But it is they who ignore the context: the role Wilson played in using war, INCLUDING Haiti's racist counterinsurgency, to nationalize white SUPREMACY, militarism, and Christian EVANGELISM.
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