“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is” is such a good, probably epoch defining line

Leopold von Ranke was granted four years of research leave two years after taking his position at the University of Berlin in 1825. This is how you support ECRs folks

Sounds interesting:

Incredible ending to this FT article on EU plans to give Deripaska assets to Raiffeisen:

'In revolutionary times, the entire sensorium remained on special alert. People listened, looked, smelled, touched, and tasted more attentively in an effort to detect the slightest changes that might signal the next sensory pandemonium.'

"Waste management was the glue that bound ordinary Germans to the Nazi regime and cemented its genocidal logic in everyday practice, precisely because salvaging, scrapping, and extending resources were seen as inherently good and orderly behaviors."

Reading Anne Berg's "Empire of Rags and Bones"

POV: it is November 1987, and you are recieving a letter from the East Berlin zoo - 'Recipient of the Order of Karl Marx and the Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver'

Ed Kiely provides a nice rejoinder here to those sneering about concerns regarding VC pay: 'enormous wage disparity...distances the corporate leadership from the concerns of rank-and-file employees : it helps to steady the hand that wields the axe.'

Confused by this bit of David Runciman's review of Quinn Slobodian's new book in the LRB where he argues that climate activism, anti-fascism, or supporting trans rights was a 'raising of the stakes' that involved 'abandoning biology'