Nicholas Henke is a writer and translator. Particularly interested in European-American cultural exchange, he has most recently taught at the Lycée D’Arsonval, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.
Everyone is thinking about leaving Paris. Everyone is saying that France will be able to handle it better than Italy. Everyone is taking preventative measures; everyone is still going out to bars. Everyone is worried that they have it, everyone is convinced that they could never get it, that the Métro car that they are in, that their favorite café du quartier is somehow excluded from the pandemic.
Well intentioned as they may be, trigger warnings nevertheless confuse victim with expert, and expert with advocate.
The surprising positivist connection between Serge Gainsbourg and the Manhattan Project.