Culture
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Беспощадный идеал прогресса и будущее человечества
English version Когда СССР рухнул, в 1991 году, некоторые западные историки и политологи стали уверенно говорит «о конце истории». Сейчас уже, всего лишь менее чем 30 лет спустя, является хорошим, академическим, серьезным тоном считать все это – просто вздор, задумствыния интеллектуалов, очень далеко от жизни, найвные, сверхоптимистически выводы. Но тогда, немалое количество умных, начитанных людей… Continue reading
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The golden era of humanity
Today we live in times of great uncertainty. And still there is a sense, particularly among those living in the West, that we have never had it so good. Conditioning this optimistic sense is a firm belief that the liberal world, order irrespective of the odd setback, will eventually fulfill an eschatological promise of universal… Continue reading
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Book review: “The Age of Anger” by Pankaj Mishra
I will tell you straight away: for those like me who feel that the nineteenth century is unsurpassed Continue reading
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Modern liberals have nothing to do with leftists
That the old concepts of left and right do not make sense anymore, has been said a thousand times. Still, especially among commentators from the United States, the category “the Left” Continue reading
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Do we live in a mediacracy?
Power as generally understood is divided in the legislative, executive and judiciary branches. And then there is the press, which has been labeled the Fourth Estate Continue reading
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Nietzsche and the rise of Germany
Nietzsche was born in 1844, the son of a Lutheran pastor, in a provincial town in Thuringia. In 1866 Prussia united the whole of Northern Germany and in 1871 Continue reading
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Obama has literally gotten away with murder
Farewells are always a bit ceremonial and hypocritical but, really, I don’t get all this last minute outpouring of good feelings for the leaving President of the United States Continue reading
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The liberal world – tales from utopia
It feels so good to be a liberal. I don’t doubt that most people, if they had a choice, would prefer to live in a liberal world. A liberal is, by definition, on the right side of history and has universal justice on his side. To tell it all, until recently I thought I was… Continue reading
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Our “culture” has lost any cultural value
For most of my adult life I used to have education and high culture in general in the greatest of esteem. My respect for culture bordered on deference Continue reading
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Globalism is just another word for colonialism
There was a time, not many years ago, when globalization was something that everybody loved to hate. Continue reading
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Open Germany is a dead-end
We live in a thriving democracy. We enjoy the benefits of an open and tolerant society, our system of government is transparent. The highest positions and the highest honors are accessible to those who display enough merit Continue reading
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Social networks have made us more antisocial
When Facebook started some ten years ago, I acted like one of these old dinosaurs who always look at a new technology with a mixture of skepticism and haughtiness. Continue reading
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The Swedish ideal of society is a dreadful and inhumane dystopian future
Sweden is nothing less than the most progressive country on earth, again and again appearing close to the top in the list of the most developed countries in the world, and the people in Sweden are apparently were well aware of (and make no mysteries about) it. But what does this being “progressive” mean? At… Continue reading
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The tyranny of coolness – or not? Book review: 111 reasons to hate Berlin
Everybody loves Berlin. Especially if you are a cool person you just have to love Berlin, it is young, dynamic, creative, sexy, well, you know the list. Yes, everybody loves Berlin, except Kristjan Knall. Kristjan Knall does not love Berlin, in particular he does not love the Berliners, in particular the hipsters (this subspecies of… Continue reading
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Why Germany is not a multicultural paradise
In Germany nobody seems to be concerned about the problem of immigration anymore. Expressing the slightest worry about the possibility of integration of many young men from a very different culture is regarded as a sign of unequivocal backwardness, possible grave mental deficiencies and dangerous and intolerable political leanings. Not even the sexual assualts of Cologne on New… Continue reading
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