As a result of privatization, many are eager to do what a Norwegian rock-star-pastor recommends — namely to occupy the backbench of the church.

I confess that if I weren't a Life Member I would resign in protest.

All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state’s law and were performed within the statewide market for labor and commodities, and their citizen’s rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people with their state but they did not explain why this state had to be national, why the national ties were developed simultaneously with the creation of citizen states.

[…] a skinny chalk-colored girl raised a hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.