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The philosopher of post-Fascism enters the populism fray with his own candidate for post-truth – Left betrayal. There is nothing new in consecrated terms being used in an entirely novel sense without announcing the change, and thereby misleading readers. It happens every day. It is no surprise if, [...]

08.03.2017

‧ 21 min.

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The 'changes' in Eastern Europe took place on the 200th anniversary of the French revolution. It seemed to many that it might be a second coming: a new revolution about, and for, human rights. At the bicentennial, the consecrated and anointed masterpiece of popular historiography described the [...]

30.05.2016

‧ 12 min.

As a former dissident and as an opposition politician and theorist around 1989, I am of course frequently asked to draw a balance sheet of the great changes in Eastern Europe. There is a huge temptation to contradict myself so as not to get bored to death by my own responses, but I think I should [...]

20.10.2015

‧ 23 min.

I am not qualified to write about the crisis which sends Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Eritreans and others to Europe. I know only what I read in the newspapers and in a few specialist books. But I have something to say about the crisis in which central and eastern Europe is plunged all of a sudden.

25.09.2015

‧ 13 min.

Um die Macht zu verstehen, sollten wir zunächst ihre Effekte ins Auge fassen. Macht zerstört und unterjocht, wie wir alle wissen. Betrachten wir also die Folgen ihres destruktiven Wirkens.

15.04.2015

‧ 22 min.