{"id":182616,"date":"2015-07-23T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/23\/todays-must-read-5\/"},"modified":"2015-07-23T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T23:01:00","slug":"todays-must-read-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/23\/todays-must-read-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Must Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joschka Fischer, the former Foreign Minister for Germany has an OP\/ED titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/return-of-the-ugly-german-by-joschka-fischer-2015-07#ZJrC3q1C6jzYdffF.99\">The Return of the Ugly German<\/a>,&#8221; and it has to be read.<\/p>\n<p>I will give you 2 paragraphs, and tell you to go read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Germany has been the big winner of European unification, both economically and politically. Just compare Germany\u2019s history in the first and second halves of the twentieth century. Bismarck\u2019s unification of Germany in the nineteenth century occurred at the high-water mark of European nationalism. Militarism became intimately associated with German power. Indeed, Germany\u2019s public philosophy, unlike that of France, Great Britain, or the United States, never incorporated a civilizing ideal to justify the use of military power.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The foundation of the second, unified German nation-state in 1989 was based on Germany\u2019s irrevocable Western orientation and Europeanization. And the Europeanization of Germany\u2019s politics filled \u2013 and still fills \u2013 the civilization gap embodied in German statehood. To allow this pillar to erode \u2013 or, worse, to tear it down \u2013 is a folly of the highest order. That is why, in the EU that emerged on the morning of July 13, Germany and Europe both stand to lose.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/nakedcapitalism.com\/\">Naked Capitalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joschka Fischer, the former Foreign Minister for Germany has an OP\/ED titled, &#8220;The Return of the Ugly German,&#8221; and it has to be read. I will give you 2 paragraphs, and tell you to go read: Germany has been the big winner of European unification, both economically and politically. Just compare Germany\u2019s history in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1110,1002,1011,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-european-union","category-good-writing","category-history","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}