Some of my first Danish friends could never quite understand US politics because we do not have a parliamentary system. Why the President did not resign, why the government had not fallen, they would ask. Technically they knew the answers to these questions but they did not feel these answers. In the US some common … More Horizons of political understanding and expectation

After many years of struggle our problems were solved, not because we won at last but because an administration came in that had no interest in obstructing our work. In the meantime we worked on slow reforms and tried to follow the advice there is about how to rise above things. But the fact is … More Even more on academic advice

All right, I will say this and then finally go, it is almost 7:53 AM and I should have been in the office already. But I was thinking of how I would formulate something I want to discuss with an administrator and my thought stream had a byproduct: on European culture as a culture of … More An interesting button of thought