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It never ceases to amaze me how clearly prominent intellectuals at the end of World War II foresaw today’s ideological struggles. One of my favorites is the Swiss philosopher...

The Jagdschloss Thiergarten in Donaustauf near Regensburg was destroyed by a fire on the night of October 6. The hunting lodge was a jewel of architectural historicism. The structure...

The days following Charlie Kirk’s assassination have highlighted the stark differences between the U.S. and Europe, especially between the U.S. and Germany. Trump called Kirk a “martyr for truth...

Renaissance painters would use life-sized wooden dolls called manichini to study how drapery folds on the human body. One day, a present-day German painter in Leipzig placed a blue...

The abortion debate in Germany has reached a critical juncture. On July 11, the last day before the parliamentary summer recess, the Bundestag intended to appoint three new judges...

Germany is currently undergoing a shift that I can only describe as catastrophic. Yet again, my country is awash with anti-Semitism, although this time for different reasons. In Germany...

I recently spoke to one of Germany’s largest booksellers. His success, including with dissident literature, is based in part on the fact that he listens to his customers without...

The inauguration of the new pope, held on the 105th birthday of St. John Paul II, was the first “virtual” Sunday Mass I attended. It proved to be a...

Friedrich Merz, the new German chancellor, is the first head of government in the federal republic to be elected only in the second round of voting. The coalition of...

Every now and then I’m invited to an early-eighteenth-century castle in the German countryside, with high baroque ceilings and a moat. The estate was previously home to a medieval...

Many of my fellow Germans blame “stupid voters” for the current political situation. If these voters only educated themselves, the argument goes, they would not believe the lies told...

The evening before the German parliamentary elections, I saw a young man drop his empty beverage can on the platform before entering a regional train. I asked him why...

On February 14, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the vice president of the United States warned the attendees of threats to Europe’s well-being. The peril does not come...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, no political question has so deeply divided Europe, and especially Germany, as that of mass migration from Africa and the Near East....