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...does being the son of Eastern Europe??s answer to Hugh Hefner help him reel in the ladies? Pavic answers honestly: “Last year, I used it a lot...Not as a pick-up line, you know ‘Do you want to do Playboy?’ but more like an approach.” But Pavic’s doesn’t just talk a big game: he’s set himself in a swanky pad off-campus where he and his roommates can throw parties without worrying about tutors...
...There are no easy theories of demographic decline, no scapegoats on which the blame can easily be placed, and no quick fixes to cheaply and easily make everything “work out.” This is why it has been ignored. Europe??s demographic implosion cuts across countries that are both post-communisst and Western European, religious and secular, small and large, economically stagnant and dynamic, and virtually any other category one sees fit to create. Like the editors of the HPR, I do not have a fully formed explanation for this, maybe because there simply...
...undergo a demographic sea change, the myriad effects of which will be as wide-ranging as they are unpredictable. History is, of course, rarely as simple as straight lines of “decline” or “rise,” but I certainly think that Europe??s situation is quite a bit more precarious than the HPR, or many Harvard students, would have it. Whether you agree with me or not, Europe??s future is worth serious thought. The Europe we know today will soon be gone...
...criticism on the basis of irrational and sensationalistic fantasy scenarios. As comparisons with the luckier spy James Bond flooded in, The London Times’ Edward Lucas recommended the West got ready for a new Cold War. The Financial Times’ John Thornhill nostalgically remembered Churchill calling for Europe??s union against Russia, while The Daily Telegraph opined the West was losing patience with Putin. And of course, The Sun—a scandal-mongering tabloid—titled Litvinenko’s poisoning: “From Russia, with Lunch...
...global middle class, Lawrence H. Summers writes in his debut column for the Financial Times today. The former Harvard president says that “ordinary, middle-class workers and their employers—whether they live in the American midwest, the Ruhr valley, Latin America or eastern Europe??are left out” of the gains generated by globalization...