Blue Skies “Blue Skies” is the new apocalyptic novel by the cult author T.C. Boyle. The plot is quite gripping. The book is, on the one hand, a tragicomic family story and, on the other hand, an environmental thriller, from which one hopes that the scenario never comes true. The initially perfect and sheltered life of siblings Cat(herine) and Cooper
Hannah Arendt wrote in essay in the seventieth from her American exile: The freedom to be free. The article gives a precise definition what freedom is and is not. It is more than the absence of fear and constraints. It is the possibility for political determination and the forming of social conditions. A fact that may have been observed with
The privileges sound tempting: attention, recognition, carpool, flunkies, access to important public persons and the certainty of ever rising allowances for members of parliament. These temptations symbolize the atttractiveness of becoming and remaining a member of parliament. The shady sides? Attacs from the public via social media, by the press and from the own party. Alienation from the family by