This weekly feature for Andelman Unleashed, continues on its mission to explore how the media of other nations are reporting and commenting on the United States, and how they are viewing the rest of the world. How others see America Thursday night, President Biden delivered a magnificent [ majestic ] State Dinner on the South Lawn of the White House for Kenya's president William Ruto, the penultimate act of a state visit that was the first in 16 years by an African head of state and the first since Ghana was honored by George W. Bush.
Speaking of reincarnated, I just re-read Lucretius' Book III speculation on life and death from the De Rerum Natura. It's reproduced in the old, Dryden translation in a fabulous new anthology of elegies, The Penguin Book of Elegies. Worth the eyeball slog just to see how world-wise the ancient world was in the year 50 BC. Anyone can read it for free, in the 1920 Trevelyan version (more modern idiom) available through the Gutenberg Project website.
I don't know what to moan about first, the formulaic, post-colonial rant from the Kenyan writer, or the notes from Cannes. Does he want America to install the Orange Racist-in-Chief?
Can we celebrate more politics in art or more art in politics? Cannes is almost as quixotic as the Oscars. Except that it has a narrower electoral base for the awards and is even more a Hollywood trade fair than the Oscars, with touches of ratatouille and pissaladière. (well, maybe the Hollywood portion has diminished recently... I dunno)
The cartoons this week are brilliant, nothing less. We will all die and be a cartoon.
Love that....yes, would love to be reincarnated as a cartoon !!
Shy of that, I can at least celebrate the most brilliant each week ... and advocate for the most oppressed or maligned !!
Speaking of reincarnated, I just re-read Lucretius' Book III speculation on life and death from the De Rerum Natura. It's reproduced in the old, Dryden translation in a fabulous new anthology of elegies, The Penguin Book of Elegies. Worth the eyeball slog just to see how world-wise the ancient world was in the year 50 BC. Anyone can read it for free, in the 1920 Trevelyan version (more modern idiom) available through the Gutenberg Project website.
I can't tell you how much this means to me, especially coming from as accomplised hack (and world traveler!) as you !!
One certainly does hope so !!
David, I don't know where else I would go for some of the stories and information you include in Unleashed. It is invaluable, I am grateful.
Brilliant and depressing weekly bulletin.
I don't know what to moan about first, the formulaic, post-colonial rant from the Kenyan writer, or the notes from Cannes. Does he want America to install the Orange Racist-in-Chief?
Can we celebrate more politics in art or more art in politics? Cannes is almost as quixotic as the Oscars. Except that it has a narrower electoral base for the awards and is even more a Hollywood trade fair than the Oscars, with touches of ratatouille and pissaladière. (well, maybe the Hollywood portion has diminished recently... I dunno)
The cartoons this week are brilliant, nothing less. We will all die and be a cartoon.
At least the S African election will be less violent than the Mexican and Indian polls!
At least the S