Rule of law, rule of lawyers a...

Apr 19, 2011 by

Rule of law, rule of lawyers and how they are trained.

Only here, walking daily past Yale Law School, did I realize what “rule of law” means in practise. In extreme practise, for in...

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What’s natural, whatR...

Apr 15, 2011 by

What’s natural, what’s unnatural about this place

„It looks like a Legoland,” an English friend of mine said when she first came to visit. She didn’t mean the New York lego...

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Exceptional? America’s belief...

Apr 12, 2011 by

Exceptional? America’s belief in its uniqueness and what it means for world affairs

Americans have arrived. Loud, unruly, besieging the hotel like a citadel. It’s a common holiday story. Americans’ conviction,...

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Thinking in stories, a few ref...

Apr 8, 2011 by

Thinking in stories, a few reflections.

„So what’s your story?” I heard at a party of Yale business students recently . “Shall I make one up?” I said. “Sure,...

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American dreams and nightmares

Apr 3, 2011 by

American dreams and nightmares

In several recent BBC articles, journalists argue that the American dream is dead,  that it has dreamt itself out. Such conclusion...

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