“It is important to win over these Muslims as loyal citizens”
The Islamic associations are not interested in Muslims living here identifying with Europe and its values, because they live off the gap between Muslims and European values. An entire Islamic economy has built itself...
The true superpower of the Christian message
Antiquity, the Middle Ages, modern times: This almost self-evident periodization of the course of history still largely determines our historical self-understanding - a circumstance that seems all the more remarkable in view of the...
"The Russians in Switzerland know: Putin is finished"
WORLD: We are sitting here in a warm café while the people in Ukraine are freezing because Russia is bombing their country. What are you currently thinking about?Mikhail Shishkin: I keep seeing these images...
The secret of the many Amazon "No. 1 bestseller”
Once upon a time it was a bestseller. Ranking lists for the presentation of best-selling books will soon be 100 years old, in Germany the first bestseller list was published in 1927, by the...
Is that still an observation or is it just about exposing Altmaier?
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The Romantics. Now also as a non-fiction soap
There is a specifically Anglo-American genre of historiography that has never really been understood in Germany: fictional historiography. Similar to academic history, its authors draw richly from patient study of sources, present a thesis...
"We've seen things you don't want to see"
There was Victor "Vickerl" Hennemann. Vickerl is said to have made up to 6,000 women happy.Whereby - "delighted"?i9. Peellh pep Bullnue, Vleup puvukt otleplep Gluu epelkenol etp enek pep telele uelptlepeue Pevhluu (Oll aevelptlekel...
This is the center of the art world
Paris par Art Basel is the name of the fair that was conceived only nine months ago. It seemed like an act of hostile or at least not exactly friendly takeover: The Swiss trade...
Death of Jean Teulé: a wonderful iconoclast keen on history and poetry
Blow of blues in the publishing world! Betty Mialet and Bernard Barrault, the editors of Jean Teulé, announced this Wednesday, October 19 that their author "would have succumbed to cardiac arrest" on the evening...
Why the distinction between healthy and sick is an illusion
Covid has shown with full force that the human condition is not just about life or death, but about all sorts of intermediate states that do not make it easy to define illness. Corona...