Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Nick Fauchald reports on the drop in sales of French wine in the United States. This is an example of the world gone crazy, Americans boycotting French products and Europeans thinking that Americans are all fat couch potatoe morons who live in trailer parks. Grow up! Both of you and start behaving like ordinary people!

John Vinocur is back in the Herald Tribune – with another piece on transatlantic relations. He discusses Joschka Fischers designs on becoming the EU’s first Foreign Minister, and his declaration that Germany for its own purposes does not want the EU to become a rival to the United States. Germany is instead seeking the “primacy…

The eminent British historian Paul Johnson writes something of a polemic in Forbes magazine. In it he attempts to show that anti-Americanism is in fact latent racism. He also argues that there is no real democracy in Europe, that “European elites tend to look at Americans as a subcivilized mass, whose function is to be…