The lost clubs of old Germany
In the 1930s, Germany threatened to be a football power, finishing third in the 1934 World Cup. Then, they had a larger country from which to pick talent – an eastern province with a lost football history.
Author: Olaf Peter Jensen
The phenomenon that caught them all
Pokémon took the world by storm in the 1990s. For my generation, no other cultural phenomenon has come close to its influence. Pokémon GO, riding on a wave of nostalgia, has proved its endurance.
Little Letterhole: A villain worth remembering
I, CLAUDIUS abounds with villains: there is the insane, incestuous Caligula; the sadistic Tiberius; and the power hungry Sejanus, but theContinue Reading
Ljubljana: Countering the hegemony
Tourists now flock to Ljubljana, but people already familiar with Prague and Budapest might mistake it for a lesser imitation. By embracing its countercultural side, it can prove that this is far from the truth.
Komnenian reputation: Erdoğan’s Byzantine approach
The increasingly autocratic President of Turkey has been compared to an Ottoman Sultan, but in the relationship with his NATO allies Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is closer to a much older tradition.
