‘Multiculturalism’ means nothing. Or does it?

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Published: November 22, 2005 at 06:00 AM

Coverage of the riots in France by the American press has been skimpy, as far as I can tell from Over Here, but I’ve noticed that a few right-leaning pundits did take the chance to bash multiculturalism, and the French, and Europe as a whole, not to mention critics of the Iraq war, before moving [...]

Europe is turning into America — slowly, painfully

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Published: November 18, 2005 at 06:00 AM

When the burning cars and schools in France shocked Europe earlier this month and threatened to spread to Brussels and Berlin, the first thing journalists did was compare the riots to 1968, when students torched cars and hurled paving stones in Paris to protest the Vietnam War. But what happened in France this month wasn’t [...]

The Litfass Polka: A brief history of anti-clutter campaigns

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Published: November 11, 2005 at 06:00 AM

On a bright summer morning in Berlin a century and a half ago, to the tune of a polka written for the occasion, Germans in top hats and tails turned out to watch a publisher and businessman named Ernst Litfass unveil his first batch of billboard-pillars, which were going to solve the problem of ugly [...]