It’s not unusual to find conservative contemporaries who complain that culture has been going downhill since the French Revolution, and then complain about welfare reforms and demand higher social benefits, without being aware of the contradiction or even comedy of this attitude.
Slogans like “Complete the turnaround!” and “Then as now. We are the people” evoke associations with the upheaval of 1989.
The worst visitations often come in the guise of supposed harmlessness.
Merkel’s CDU is no longer the party of Adenauer and Kohl. It’s a chimera.
If everything is relative, drinking becomes dangerous.
Germany is now “largely isolated and hated” again.
German hyper-morality, born as a reaction against the amoral Nazi past, has turned into a turned into a “moral imperialism”.
Editorial for this summer’s double edition of eigentümlich frei
Germany is releasing its neo-totalitarian potential.
Leipzig, of all places, is now the source of a monstrous falsification of history.
What the Western citizens completely misjudged at that time was a furious grievance that had been inflicted on all socialists in East and West by that victory of freedom.
The German ruling class are calling for stripping anyone they consider to be a right-wing ‘extremist’ of their fundamental rights.
Claudio Grass talks to Carlos A. Gebauer, part 2
Some things are so easy that only children can understand them.
Claudio Grass talks to Carlos A. Gebauer, part 1
“Do not call lies truth and do not call truth lies,” says Merkel, whose nose ought to be yards long.
Democracy is a backdrop, consisting of simulations, fictions and self-delusions, behind which decisions are made that the demos neither wants nor has legitimized.
Grace can only be said where there is still a commonly used table.
The key is not to avoid suffering, but to transcend it.
Ugly inter-European imperialism raises its head in Germany again.
Some migrants, and some Germans with migrant background, believe they are owed positive discrimination.
Some in the media express a furtive, conditional intent to kill.
The EU is calling on us to show up at the polls in the name of progress, civil society and our shared European values. And yet, some of its official campaign partners have well-established links to extremist ideologies that embrace the exact opposite vision.
The value of gold and silver is assigned by their own nature. Everything else is measured against a certain weight of these metals. Or should be.
The judges are employed by one of the two parties to the dispute.
