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Essays

Obama’s Pétard and the Resurgent Red Coats

Published in ResPublica, July 8, 2010

Resurrection of a Secession: Tea-parties and other attacks against Obama

Published in Tagesspiegel, March 31, 2010

Yes, You Can

Published in Welt am Sonntag, Jan. 24, 2010

America in God's Service: the churches and Obama

Published in Die Zeit, Jan. 5, 2010

Who Hates Obama and Why America Doesn't Know What To Do With Its Own Government

Published in Die Zeit, Dec. 19, 2009

The Separation of Church and State:
A proposal from the devout

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, July 4, 2009

Notes on American Patriotism

Published in Kulturaustausch, July 2009

Savior or President? An Obama Choice

Published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Feb. 3, 2009

Every Country Gets the Government — and Savior — It Deserves

Published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Jan. 28, 2009

To Be Everything and Offend No One: The First Lady's Job

Welt am Sonntag, Jan. 26, 2008

The Religious Vote & The Religious Future of the US

Die Berliner Zeitung, Jan. 20, 2008

Politics and Religion in the US under President Obama

German-American Institute, Freiburg, Germany, Jan. 13, 2009

Shopping for the Fatherland

Der Spiegel, Dec. 8, 2008

Remarks on the 2008 Presidential Election

Deutsches Hause (at NYU), Nov. 7, 2008

A Eulogy for Bush

Frankfurter Runschau, Nov. 1, 2008

The Traditions and Future of US Foreign Policy

Swiss Institute for Foreign Policy, Zurich University, Oct. 29, 2008

America”s Tough Kid Sister

Die Zeit, Sept. 11, 2008

The Political Romanticism of Hopes for “Change”

Suddeutsche Zeitung, Sept. 8, 2008

In NY, Obama Is Family

Frankfurter Rundschau, Aug. 30, 2008

The Veep for Every Party

die Tagesspiegel, Aug. 22, 2008

Europe's Obama Delusion

die Zeit, July 10, 2008

The Shift Among Evangelicals

die Tageszeitung, April 1, 2008

America's Stubborn Foreign Policy

die Tagesspiegel, March 13, 2008

Money and Secrets:
A Kafka Story

die Tageszeitung, Feb. 23, 2008

Guaranty of Liberty:
Religion and Politics in the US

Herder Korrespondenz: Journal for society and religion, February, 2008

Who Stands for What?:
The presidential campaign thus far

die Tageszeitung, Jan. 19, 2008

The Clout of God's Mercy:
Politics and religion in America

Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Dec. 31, 2007

America's Marketplace of Confessions:
Evangelical Christianity's Gift to Muslims

Islamica Magazine, Jan. 15, 2008

Intelligence in Legoland

die Tageszeitung, December 14, 2007

The Evangelical Vote:
A Moving Target?

die Tageszeitung, November 4, 2007

Does America Do It Better:
religion, immigration, pluralism in the US and Europe – a special focus on Islam

Internationale Politik, German Council on Foreign Relations, September, 2007

From European Calvinism to American Evangelicalism.

Paper given at the Conference on Ambiguities and Pluralities in Religion,
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin,
June 22, 2007

Religion Expressed, Religion Submerged, or:
the religion, values and foreign policy of the country with the Biggest Guns
.

Lecture given at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, June 7, 2007

Is Israel Bad for The Jews:
Understanding Tony Judt.

Die Tageszeitung, Jan.. 25, 2007

A Warning for Friends:
What does Europe need to know about US foreign policy to make its own — regardless of who wins in 1008?.

Internationale Politik, Jan. 2007

America Staring Straight Ahead.

Die Tageszeitung, Nov.. 27, 2006

Rorshach for the Dark Side:
What Tony Judt’s brush with censorship tells us about the Jews.

Frankfurter Rundschau, Nov.. 20, 2006

“Everything Is Different Now:”
Thoughts on the 2006 Midterm Elections.

Frankfurter Rundschau, Nov. 10, 2006

Iraq is like Vietnam — no, like WWII — no, like . . .
Debates before the 2006 Midterm Election

Die Tageszeitung, Oct. 10, 2006

A Familiar Foreign Policy.

Foreign Policy, Nov. 9, 2006

Sept. 11th made America only ‘more of itself’:
A look to future elections and régime change.

Die Tageszeitung, Sept. 9, 2006

Five years later:
on the streets of NY and the minds of America

Frankfurter Rundschau, Sept. 7, 2006

Sept. 11, 2001:
Memory, Nostalgia, Reaction and Analysis that fails us

Die Tagesspiegel, Sept. 11, 2006

An American solution:
A review of John Updike's Terrorist

Die Tagesspiegel, Aug. 21, 2006

The Values, Religion and Foreign Policy of the Country with the Biggest Guns

Lecture at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, July 11, 2006

What's Bruce Got To Do With It?
European immigration and the sense of being cool

Welt am Sonntag,May 28, 2006

Radical left or radical right?
A historical look at American evangelicalism and its role in US foreign policy

Lecture at Fundamentalism Alarm? New Religious and political strategies in the face of a turnback to religion.
An international conference sponsored by The Lutheran Evangelical Academy and the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Loccum, Germany,
May 5 – 7, 2006

The Un-United States of America:
Problems with EU confederation? Check out the early US

Die Tageszeitung, April 5, 2006

Government mendacity:
Let me count the ways

Die Tageszeitung, Feb. 18, 2006

I'm offended / You're offended:
Censorship — the universal solution

Die Tageszeitung, Feb. 8, 2006

Dad, you bourgeois creep, can I have the key to the BMW?:
Notes on German foreign policy

Wlt am Sonntag,Jan. 22, 2006

If I can't run the show, I don't want to come to your revolution:
Europe, don't wait for America on Kyoto

Die Tageszeitung, Dec. 8, 2005

Evangelicalism:
Why we hate it and why it works

Sueddeutsche Zeitung, October, 2005

Europe's Lost Vision of Itself:
In the shadow of the U.S.

Internationale Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations), October, 2005

Seize the Day, and the Dough

Die Weltwoche, September, 2005

Paganism for Our Times

Sueddeutsche Zeitung, August, 2005

Aufklaerung Weltjugendtag: World Youth Day for Enlightenment:
(a small competitor to the Aug. 2005 "World Youth Day for Catholicism and the Pope")

Frankfurter Rundschau, August, 2005

Looking Back at Berlin:
A comedy

Comments on the Inaugural Address of G.W. Bush:
January 2005

Duelling Paradoxes:
Religion and Multiculturalism in the U.S. and Europe

Goethe Institute, Jan. 24, 2005

The English Patient:
Reading in Europe/Reading in America

Die Tagespiegel, Jan. 20, 2005

Comments on the Election of G.W. Bush:
November 2004

Frankfurter Rundschau, Nov. 23, 2004

Money & Religion in America:
The New Right

Internationale Politik, Oct. 24, 2004

Votes Count Only If They're counted:
Electronic Voting Machines

CiceroMagazine, Oct. 1, 2004

Aggression/Isolation: A modest proposal for the EU

Internationale Politikjournal, Sept. 15, 2004

A Portrait of Karl Rove

CiceroMagazine, May 29, 2004

Anybody But Bush Is Somebody — But No Savior:
John Forbes Kerry

Frankfurter Rundschau, Mar. 18, 2004

Vote Early and Often:
Electronic Voting Machines Make It Simple

Frankfurter Rundschau, Dec. 22, 2003

Who is 'We':
What Does the EU Need in Common?

Berliner Zeitung, July 4, 2003

Hysteria for the Age of Globalization:
A Ballet in Two Acts

published Sept. 13, 2003 by the Frankfurter Rundschau

Turning Plowshares into Swords:
The terrible productivity of American violence

A Lecture at the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Munich, Germany, May 28, 2003

War Losses & Transnational Peace

Berliner Zeitung, Munich, Germany, May 9, 2003

The creative productivity of American aggression
German version

"Aspekte" ZDF TV interview with Marcia Pally, March 21, 2003

Interview with Marcia Pally

on Bush, war, and the state of democracy.

"The Engine on the Ground of America"

As published in the San Francisco Chronicle

September 11th: One Year Later

Frankfurter Rundschau, September 11, 2002

The Designated Mourner: A Review of "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace:
How We Got to Be So Hated"
by Gore Vidal

Frankfurter Rundschau, July 15, 2002

Who's Got Religion Now?

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Soothing Effect of Media-Angst

German version in Merkur, August 2001

To My Palestinian Friends
Look to the Long View

German version: Berliner Zeitung, May 5, 2001

The Ledger of Holocaust-Reparations:
Norman Finkelstein and the
Jewish Specialness-Dilemma

German version: "Süddeutsche Zeitung," August 22, 2000

Grow up, Germany!
Or: The Pally-Plan

Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 2001

Fans of Aramaic, Unite!
Europe Need Not Fear the English Language

Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 2001

'Farbrengen' My Baby Back Home
Rabbi Schneerson and the Lubavitchers

Film Comment, 1987

Bill T. Jones at the
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

The New York Times, May 8, 1983

 


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