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George Blecher
is a former literature professor at the City University of New York, and currently a full-time writer whose articles on American politics and culture appear in many European journals and newspapers. He is also a translator from Danish and Swedish into English. In 2009, a collection of short stories, Andre mennesker, was published in Danish (the English original, "Other people exist - sort of", is yet to be published).
Eurozine Articles
A nation like any other
Western Europe holds Israel to impossible standards
Since the conflict with Lebanon, there has been a sense among Western intellectuals that Israel has crossed some moral boundary line. But western European rhetoric holds Israel to impossible standards of perfection. [Czech version added] [more]
Cataclysm, anarchy and knitting
US financial experts are talking of cataclysm and anarchy, but what really worries them is nationalization, writes George Blecher. Meanwhile, at street-level, the crisis is having some unusual effects. [more]
Neither an editor nor a European
Writer and journalist George Blecher's first European meeting of Cultural journals was in Berlin in 1989. He has been coming back ever since -- despite his being neither an editor nor a European. [more]
Dirty secrets of a translator
"No translator can translate every author equally well. The problem is that you don't know whom you can and can't translate until you try, and by then it's too late." George Blecher divulges the translator's dirty secrets... [more]
Another America?
George Bush's State of the Union address reflected the current mood in the US: muted, sombre, and resigned. Is this new attitude suggestive of a change in the way the US is starting to look at itself? [more]
Politics dressed up as principle
When the Danish prime minister defended the Jyllands-Posten cartoons on the grounds of freedom of expression, he failed to acknowledge his political loyalties. [more]
Doctor! Doctor! My private health insurance policy is driving me crazy!
A warning to Europe from across the Atlantic: are you sure you want a privatized healthcare system? [more]
"We have met the enemy, and he is us"
Where does the prevalent feeling between the US-American Republicans and Democrats - namely hatred - derive from? George Blecher on the subject. [more]
Who's afraid of the context?
Why it pays for American networks to keep their heads down on the Iraq war. [more]
Oasis in the desert
A conversation with Kevin Klose, President of the American National Public Radio
How NPR, the virtually only outlet for fact-based journalism in the US radio market, continues to increase its listenership. [more]
The leisure class and I
On the timeliness of Thorstein Veblen's "Theory of the Leisure Class". [more]
George Blecher commemorates Lothar Baier
"He was our intellectual and moral conscience." [more]
Notes from the Rubble
To describe as "conflicted" the political feelings of Americans these days is to make an almost comic understatement: everybody thinks everything simultaneously, writes George Blecher as he reflects on the atmosphere in the US after September 11th. [more]
America's dilemma
After the Iraq invasion, Americans are faced with an impossible choice on how to judge their government's "pre-emptive" war doctrine, argues George Blecher. [more]
Heroes, leaders, demagogues
Our personal heroes and why we can not live without them. [more]
Americans at millennium's end
How We Learned to Love the Media and Forget Who We Are
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