Tag: essay
Essay on the start of the soccer World Cup: put in the sand – sport
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino promises “the most incredible event the world has ever seen”. But the message of the World Cup in Qatar has long been different: money can buy…
Nuremberg: “Magda Toffler. Essay on Silence” at the Staatstheater – Munich
A single chair on an empty stage. Boris Nikitin sits on it, squints into the backlight and begins to work on his stack of papers. Like his well-travelled “Essay on…
Essay: Tame the markets!
In the UK, big investors forced the government into line. But state power must not emanate from speculators. Only one thing helps: don’t demonize, but regulate. source site
Essay: When Economists Become “Practical People” – Economics
Ben Bernanke, Ludwig Erhard, Karl Schiller and John Maynard Keynes – economists can make serious mistakes when they enter politics, even though their theories may be perfectly correct. essay by…
Jens Balzer’s essay "ethics of appropriation": Everything is Creole
There is no reason to leave the critique of the idea of ”cultural appropriation” to conservatives. The pop theorist Jens Balzer dares to take a skeptical look from the left.…
Essay: Criticism of the all-round carefree state – economy
One of those mild September evenings in Frankfurt. Garden party, Chardonnay in a glass, tailored suits, ties, jazz band. Bankers, consultants and politicians, journalists. It’s the time of the late…
Katherine Angel’s essay “Sex will be good tomorrow” – Culture
A few days ago I was on vacation on the Côte d’Azur. Just before the holidays, I had read with great enthusiasm Katherine Angel’s Tomorrow, Sex Will Be Good Again,…
Gas Crisis: Welcome to Reality
The Germans are facing a hot autumn and a hard winter – and the farewell to many certainties. What they are and what the new crisis policy should look like.…
Marica Bodrožić’s essay “The Work of Birds”. – Culture
Walking and thinking have been connected since the Greek Peripatetics. The one between wandering and thinking is more recent. Fleeing and thinking, on the other hand, almost contradict each other.…
Essay: Why we need more technology, not less – Business
Humans can no longer afford to destroy the planet. But those who demonize everything new are acting irrationally and possibly blocking significant progress. essay by Helmut Martin-Jung A pig farm,…