George Blecher
America’s new young generation looks away from Europe
The United States is changing, perhaps for the better, though not in politics. And they are less and less “European”, argues the American...
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George Blecher
Mar 217 min read
Running scared
George Blecher 18 March 2024 Biden’s State of the Union speech seems to have proved that he could survive another four years in the White...
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George Blecher
Feb 19, 20236 min read
The old man scores some points
George Blecher February 16 2023 The faith in American unanimity that Joe Biden expressed in this year’s State of the Union speech sounded...
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George Blecher
Nov 15, 20227 min read
It could have been worse
George Blecher 14 November 2022 The red tide never surged but the re-election of numerous brazen careerists and hardline crazies is bad...
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Mar 14, 20227 min read
In the shadow of Putin, Trump and a divided America
Amidst bipartisan solidarity with Ukraine, Joe Biden’s State of the Union address focused on unity and reconciliation. But in reality,...
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Nov 19, 20207 min read
Fragments from a broken mirror
Pessimists fear that the Trump phenomenon has not so much derailed American democracy as revealed long-standing problems in the system...
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Nov 2, 20207 min read
A shining city on a hill. What if anything can American values teach a free Belarus?
The United States may not be the best model for a fledgling democracy looking for fresh values. America’s values have never been as pure...
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Apr 22, 20207 min read
The Confused States of America
The first month of the pandemic in the US The Trump administration’s failing response to COVID-19 has prompted governors and mayors to...
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Feb 12, 20207 min read
Torn-Up Texts and Mini Mike
Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address In the midst of a predictably partisan impeachment trial, Donald Trump said not a word about the...
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Jan 21, 202013 min read
The Shelf-Life of Democracies
An interview with George Blecher on US politics in the age of Trump George Blecher Adam Reichardt Media acceleration puts enormous...
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Feb 13, 20198 min read
Old Soldiers and Women in White
Donald Trump’s achievements thus far have been rhetorical. But whether Democrats can take advantage of his weakness remains doubtful....
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Jul 3, 20187 min read
Michael Bloomberg and the US Presidency: A Sign of the Times?
As Donald Trump appals and captivates the world in equal measure, another New York businessman is quietly positioning himself for power....
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Oct 24, 20164 min read
Alone and Tired
In the latest of his Battle Dispatches from the electoral front, George Blecher visits the heartlands of the Trump vote in the swing...
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May 27, 20133 min read
Deeper Than a Tweet: The Boston Bombing and Why You Can't Become Completely American
George Blecher pinpoints exactly what it is that confuses Americans about the actions of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who, prior to the bombing of...
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Oct 5, 20045 min read
We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us
In the light of the American presidential election in November 2004, George Blecher muses on the growing gap between those sympathising...
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Feb 8, 200022 min read
Americans at Millennium’s End
Additionally published in Wespennest (Vienna)
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