When Heads Roll in Europe
A brutal knife attack in Belfast has exposed more than the savagery of one crime. It has laid bare a political and media culture t…
A Chancellor Dismantles Himself
Friedrich Merz wanted to be the chancellor who explained the world to Germany. Instead, a single exchange with a terminally ill wo…
Free Speech Is Not for Wimps
‘No one has the right to obey,’ the great philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote. It is far easier to remain silent and blend into t…
Nothing Unites the Left and the Right Like Antisemitism and Anti-Americanism
Greens, the hard left, socialists, the UN and the Alternative for Germany are rarely inspired by a common political cause. It has …