Author Archives: Michael Wehle

Last Friday, I’d got as far as Indira Gandhi, Moshe Dayan, and Dubček. I mean, there’s nowhere left to go. –Venedikt Yerofeev, Moscow Stations, (London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1997), 87.

Guardian: In a public statement on Thursday, the state department said it would designate Antifa Ost in Germany, the Italy-based International Revolutionary Front, and two organisations in Greece – Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense – as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists … … Continue reading →

Berliner Zeitung: Satire oder Straftat? Schüler wegen Meme über Bundeswehr-Offizier angeklagt

Alle sagen: der Kreml, der Kreml. Von allen habe ich das gehört, ihn selbst aber habe ich kein einziges Mal gesehen. Wieviele Male schon (tausend Male), betrunken oder verkatert, bin ich durch Moskau gegangen, von Nord nach Süd, von Ost … Continue reading →

Kaiser Kuo, The Ideas Letter: The familiar framing of China as “rising” or “catching up” no longer holds. China is now shaping the trajectory of development, setting the pace economically, technologically, and institutionally. For Americans especially, the deeper psychic shock … Continue reading →

Biggest national lead I’ve seen so far for the AfD over CDU/CSU.