Not Only About Wine

It seems that the most difficult is just in front of me. In the first entry in this series, I wrote that there were many levels and that each of them should have been treated separately to get the description straightforward. Describing the individual stories, however, it is easy to lose an overall plan. I […]

When the UK Decanter admitted Robert Parker Jr to his Hall of Fame for 2020, they wrote in a well-crafted online article: „He has received the highest civilian honours offered to individuals in France (an Officier of the Légion d’Honneur, bestowed by President Chirac), Italy (a Commendatore in the National Order of Merit, bestowed by […]

Some have long dreamed of globalisation, McLuhan wrote about the global village back in the  1960s. There have been euphoric moments when globalisation has been confused with progress, forgetting that both concepts are merely categories of world view and realistically exist only in human heads. Progress, however, has an evaluative tinge. Still, globalisation is a […]