Our elites have retreated from the values that once constituted the core of military ethos. Service, duty, courage, discipline, loyalty—all are seen as hopelessly outdated, if not genuinely dangerous.
The Israeli-German hostages surely asked themselves: What purpose does our German passport serve if the German state won’t fight for our lives?
Though Germany’s divisions appeared larger than ever on a day designed to commemorate unity, these divisions are not geographical but political, cultural, and social.
If we fail to challenge the anti-humanist ideology underlying modern thinking, we cannot be surprised when sections of the next generation are lost to undemocratic nihilism.
Today’s attempts to ban AfD represent something unprecedented: a governing elite attempting to eliminate its primary opposition to preserve its own power.
The elections in North Rhine-Westphalia prove the catastrophic failure of establishment anti-populist strategy.
A court pushback against the German agency’s overreach offers a symbolic win—but leaves the core threat of its existence untouched.
For far too long, the German mainstream promoted a sheepish, silencing creed of multiculturalism. But the times when this worked are over—even in Cologne.
In a potential test case for other regions, an AfD mayoral candidate was barred from the election for, among other things, quoting Tolkien and admiring Wagner.
Prioritizing short-term tactics over wisdom, Merz allowed himself to be swayed by shifting public opinion and the desire to appease his Social Democratic partners.
Post-war German education once stood for intellectual rigour. Today, feelings trump facts, ideology replaces enquiry, and political conformity stifles critical thinking.
How Germany’s Nazi past was politically weaponized to justify the 2015 refugee crisis
