Monthly Archives: December 2025

Happy New Year! Learning from the Past to Achieve a Better Future!

Posted on December 31, 2025 by slandau

Happy New Year to everybody! I promised in a previous blog that I would be reading two recently published books to try to find how we could learn from the recent past to make a better future. Last week’s blog … Continue reading →

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Is History Repeating Itself?

Posted on December 24, 2025 by slandau

Figure 1 – The cover of the book (source: Amazon) I finished last week’s blog with the following two sentences:  Around the same time, I ordered two recent books, Fateful Hours: the Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich and 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash … Continue reading →

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Past, Present, and Future: Part 2

Posted on December 17, 2025 by slandau

Figure 1 – Past, now, and future Past: The past tells us what has already happened. Last week’s blog addressed this through both its top figure and the speech of Camille Robcis, the new chair of Columbia University’s History Department. Prof. … Continue reading →

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“Never Again” – Past, Present and Future: Part 1

Posted on December 10, 2025 by slandau

(Source: ModelThinkers.com) In an earlier blog (November 12, 2025), I mentioned traveling to an upcoming meeting at the Holocaust Museum that included filming an interview. Before the interview, I got early notice of the questions that I would be asked … Continue reading →

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COP30 Conclusions

Posted on December 4, 2025 by slandau

(Source: Reuters) The COP30 final text, officially referred to as the Belém Package or the Global Mutirão Decision, is a consensus document that aims to accelerate climate action among all signatory nations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The United States … Continue reading →

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