Propaganda, oversimplifications, ‘special operations’: understanding the present with the help of a great German philologist from the past, Victor Klemperer

It is the working classes who have experienced and rejected the era of state control and party representation, and who are seeking the key to their social identity elsewhere and in other ways; they have changed the tone of their voice, as well as the model and scale of their criteria for judgement

There is a twofold error in the migrant issue, and it affects both the right and the left. Europe is needed, but it must not act irresponsibly and must not refuse to show solidarity. Everything else creates fear

It is the defining feature of our age and of the current political crisis. Christian-democratic culture, Europe, sovereignty. An essay

Amid the chaos in Spain (60,000 arrivals, 48,000 already returned), two forms of demagoguery are emerging: the self-defeating stance of closure (‘what if this happened to us?’), and the folly of denial (‘problems aren’t solved: they’re denied’). But there is a solution: more Europe