The reform program of Poland’s new education minister is painfully familiar to Western Europeans. The aim is unmistakable: It is about a left-wing reshaping of the youth in order to make any possibility of conservative parties returning to power impossible.
The new Asterix is not disappointing, but it nonetheless fails by being too conventional.
FROM THE FALL 2023 PRINT EDITION: Houellebecq is a dystopian visionary who has discovered that reality has overtaken him.
To see people practising martial arts and attending the Tridentine Mass in the morning, and, in the evening, enjoying local cuisine, loudly singing old French songs, and joyously talking about the future is something I will never forget—and I wish, perhaps in vain, that it could be repeated throughout Europe.
Having managed the country with the sole aim of keeping her ‘clientelist’ system in power for as long as possible, Angela Merkel is disappearing from the political scene—just as the first cracks in the German ‘ship of state’ are beginning to show.
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