The German Left’s Jewish Dilemma Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals. Gerfried Ambrosch 25 Jul 2024 · 11 min read
Narratives, Damned Lies, and Statistics Government data about German antisemitism, widely cited in the English-language press, is wrong. Andrew Hammel 13 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
Can the Revolution in German Foreign Policy Last? During the fierce debate over the Iraq war, the German political scientist Karl Kaiser said, “Europeans have done something that no one has ever done before: create a zone of peace where war is ruled out, absolutely out.” And, he added, “Europeans are convinced that this model is valid for Brian Stewart 11 Apr 2022 · 6 min read
Remembering Berlin’s Post-Communist Art Colony—Before It Became ‘Kitsch for the Rich’ The Berlin winter sky is orange one evening as we turn off Oranienburger Strasse into Tacheles courtyard, where a Trabant is planted nose-first in the sand, a laconic memorial to a lifestyle that no longer exists. Ulrich Gutmair 29 Dec 2021 · 12 min read
The Cold War’s Morbid Sage: Theodor W. Adorno and the Philosophy of 'Post-Existence' Adorno was smuggling a work of social analysis full of difficult philosophical references into his readers’ reach by disguising it as literature. Philipp Felsch 17 Nov 2021 · 10 min read