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RIP Anson Rabinbach 1945-2025

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I want to be a German national politician solely to get people to read my dissertation

One can only hope that Thomas Meaney was present at this year's Munich Security Conference. harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. After Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

Froh über die nüchternen wissenschaftlichen Einordnungen, die man in Deutschland verlässlich bekommt 👍

They hate Christianity in the Nietzschean way, which means that they hate it accurately for being a mercy to the poor and a command to be kind and honest even to the weak. This is much more intelligent than New Atheists who hate inaccurate cartoon caricatures of religion.

Great to see David de Jong on this podcast:

Serious question: Has anyone in the Merz-Klingbeil government in Berlin ever had any "big idea"? Written anything of note? Proposed any concept or vision of any kind? Asking not polemically but in desperation. Is there anything to be said about any of these drab people?

Looking forward to welcoming Pankaj Mishra in Berlin next Friday. We will discuss Germany's memory failure. Moderated by Kristin Helberg. spore-initiative.org/en/programming…

Pro-Tipp: Biografie des ersten deutschen Botschafters in Israel googeln...Dann ahnt man auch, was mit Versöhnung gemeint ist.

Ja: "Ich bin in den Nullerjahren erwachsen geworden, und zum ersten Mal seit dieser Zeit muss man vielleicht sagen, dass die Zukunft vollkommen unklar, damit aber auch völlig offen ist." berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnue…

Bei uns läuft morgens öfter der Nachrichtenpodcast der ZEIT, diesmal hätte ich mich aber fast am Kaffee verschluckt…Danke für die Leseempfehlung!

Bei den dümmsten Deutschen hat sich der Antisemitismus einfach ein neues Objekt gesucht. Ultratransparente Operation.

Selbstüberschätzug und Gratismut sind m.E. treffende Selbstbeschreibungen des außenpolitischen Diskurses im Land...