_ I’m listening to public radio from the Austrian state of Styria that includes Graz. What seems curious is that it’s supported by the state, which means tax money. In the United States nobody with a public radio would be able to get away with playing nonstop Christmas music of the religious variety on Christmas Eve. Maybe they would have gotten away with it some decades ago, but no longer.

This is Europe. It’s old-fashioned. Maybe we should think twice before we make it just like us, before it becomes the United States of Europe. Don’t we need countries that embrace the old values as well as the new?