Wikipedia: Where facts are only allowed through the filter of power
Wikipedia is often referred to as "the free encyclopedia." Freely accessible, freely editable, free from bias. A digital campfire of enlightenment...
Rock Hard and the new purity test: When ideology is more important than music
It is a fascinating development of our time that those who portray themselves as defenders of diversity and tolerance are increasingly...
The wrong mindset: When confetti is more dangerous than reality
There was a time when Carnival was a release valve. A place where people could escape reality through...
One minute of truth against a system of excuses
Sometimes you don't need a 90-minute talk show, a strategy paper, or a 300-page parliamentary inquiry. Sometimes a minute is enough. Martin Sonneborn achieves this...
Epstein Files: Why the NZZ prefers to downplay rather than investigate.
There are questions that only people far enough removed from the events ask themselves. Preferably with a coffee, an editorial...
The high priest of public service and the fear of empty coffers
There are people who don't explain, they educate. And then there's Marko Kovic. If a wrong opinion starts to take root anywhere, ...
Most people have no idea what's going on here.
There are conversations that leave you feeling wiser. And there are conversations that make you realize how shockingly little the...
SRG: Public service or service narrative?
The SRG is a fascinating Swiss microcosm: officially a "public service", but practically a superbly oiled opinion-steering machine with friendly, smiling presenters and...
Minnesota as a fuse: How to test-light a powder keg
There are situations where one wonders whether escalation stems from incompetence or intent. Minnesota is currently providing an example...
Self-organizing nanotechnology in the blood
There are topics that reflexively divide society into two camps: Some cry "Scaremongering!", others "Finally, someone's said it..."
Imbecility born of cowardice
Plato was naive. Excuse me, philosophically idealistic. He genuinely believed that virtues had to be in balance to prevent a society from going astray. Prudence...
The high art of looking away: Anatomy of the conspiracy denier
They do exist, this strange species of the 21st century: the "conspiracy denier." No, that's not a typo. We're not talking about those sinister figures...
War & Media Hysteria – Harald Schmidt on Monika Gruber's show
Imagine this: Harald Schmidt is sitting with Monika Gruber in a vodcast, and suddenly something happens that is unprecedented in Germany...
When a 90-year-old has more backbone than the entire Bundestag
Dieter Hallervorden is 90. Ninety. In a country where people as early as age 35 already preemptively express their opinions to their employers, ...
Frequency manipulation
A culture is destroyed by destroying its language. Language controls thought, and so everywhere attempts are made to...
Lockdown for you, liquidity for BlackRock – or how to sell monetary policy as a public health measure
Sometimes reality is so elegantly constructed that it almost inspires awe. Take the pandemic. Officially a medical emergency, ...
If you only knew what was coming… – The toughest analysis of the year
It's often said that our society is enlightened, democratic, and free. And that's true. At least until someone does something...
Good night, Germany
Friends, how we laughed! Not just any friendly laugh, but the smug, self-satisfied chuckle of a nation that had set its sights on...
Germany is burning – and is extinguishing it with fear and self-pity.
Sometimes I wonder if this country has collectively decided to go into mental hibernation – without...
Homo Dilettantis – a brief history of evolution
In the beginning was humankind. Hairy, limited, armed with curiosity. Homo sapiens not yet... first Erectus – proud...
Fighting fascism through fascism – the political perpetual motion machine
You want to ban political parties? Nazis wanted that too. You want censorship of the spoken word? Nazis wanted that too. You want...
Thought prohibitions: When freedom becomes a mere phrase.
They say we live in a free society. Everyone is allowed to say what they think – as long as it's "the right thing"...
The grand dressage: democracy as a backdrop, obedience as the core.
There are experiments that are not conducted in a white lab coat, but in living rooms, schools, supermarkets, and in people's minds...
Human dignity is inviolable
Unless he's unvaccinated. Unless he asks questions you shouldn't ask. Unless he's "right-wing". Unless he has doubts...
Florida's chief medical officer: Global forces are working towards the enslavement of humanity.
Dr. Joe Ladapo has just said what no other official dares to say. At a global health summit, he spoke without...
Why Guérot spoke with Höcke – and why that hurts some people.
Ulrike Guérot has done something unforgivable: she has spoken. Not about, but with. Of all people, with Björn Höcke, the officially licensed...
Zurich, the transparent city: privacy and data protection were yesterday
What the Zurich tax office is now calling an "audit" sounds less like forms and more like a professional inventory of your life...
Coronavirus: The real goal of fear-mongering
Corona – the greatest state crime of all time? Marc Friedrich speaks with Dr. Gunter Frank, a physician and author who...
Pogrom 2.0: The Holy Alliance of the Intolerant – When left and right embrace in a shitstorm
It's fascinating: the moment you deviate even a millimeter from the approved line of opinion, it flutters in – the ...
Germany's self-destruction is reminiscent of the end of the Roman Empire.
So, how's the nation doing? Answer: From a cell biology perspective — it's just clicking. In biology, this is called apoptosis, ...








































