On Germany, the hegemon of Europe.
We are joined by leading German public intellectual Wolfgang Streeck to discuss the role of Germany at the end of the End of History. How is it and the EU faring under the assault of Covid-19? We cover Germany’s economic miracles - postwar and post-2008 -, Merkel’s tactical brilliance and strategic ignorance, and how France retains more of a sense of history.
Also: why democracy sometimes needs an AK47.
Readings:
/432/ Median Left Thought and its Monsters ft. Ben Burgis (sample)
/431/ The Myth of Monolithic China ft. Lee Jones & Shahar Hameiri
/430/ Welcome to the Tourist Age ft. Marco d'Eramo
/429/ Reading Club: Treason of the Intellectuals (sample)
/428/ The First Poaster (Vice) President? ft. Ryan Zickgraf
/427/ Why Do We Make Our Emotions Match the Market? ft. Eva Illouz
/426/ Expropriate the Canon ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
/425/ Reading Club: Russia's Imitation Democracy (sample)
/424/ Aufhebonus Bonus - July 2024 (sample)
/423/ Who Wants the 'Worst Job' in France? ft. Charles Devellennes
/422/ Meat the New Prime Minister: UK Election Rundown
/421/ Who Are the Wrong Ukrainians? ft. Volodymyr Ishchenko
/420/ Fertility Freefall & Gender Strife in South Korea ft. Hyeyoung Woo (sample)
/419/ Who Owns Power ft. Fred Stafford (sample)
/418/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown System, German-Style ft. Gregor Baszak (sample)
/RE-RELEASE/ Silvio Berlusconi: An Oral History
/417/ Has India passed peak Modi? ft. Achin Vanaik
/416/ Aufhebonus Bonus (sample)
/415/ Left-Populism That Works? (II) ft. Juan David Rojas
/414/ Zone of Banality or the Authority of Evil?
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