… and the crowds are getting bigger! This Sunday saw another demonstration for Europe on the Goetheplatz in Frankfurt. This time the demonstration was even supported by some live music. This has been my fourth[…]
Category: politics
Pulse of Europe II
Another week another protest for Europe here in Frankfurt. The crowds are getting bigger! The human chain did not fit on the Goetheplatz anymore. The populists had their 15 minutes of fame. Let us take[…]
Protest doesn’t work.
In an op-ed piece in the Financial Times the columnist Janan Ganesh wrote that protests are useless. He says that “At best, it will be ineffectual against populism’s raw tonnage of votes, …”. I thought[…]
#whyIMarch
During the last election in the US it was expected that gender would play a role since for the first time it pitted a woman against a man. The role, gender ultimately played, though, was[…]
Period
In the first press conference of the incoming administration the new press secretary Sean Spicer made this statement about the crowds at the inauguration: […] This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration,[…]
#isubscribed
In this post I want to make an appeal. I want you to subscribe to a newspaper. Here is why: The changes that were brought about by the fall of the iron curtain and the[…]
Dear Donald Trump – A letter
Dear Donald Trump, let me congratulate you on winning the election and becoming President-elect of the United States of America. For the last three months I have been drawing one cartoon a day to highlight[…]
Berlin & Brexit
Berlin is the name of Germany’s capital but it is also the name of one of the most important thinkers of the last century: Isaiah Berlin. In his prolific writing he either defended liberty outright[…]
Lead! An open letter to Senator John McCain.
Dear Senator McCain, Pericles, in his funeral oration, says the following about the public men of the Greek Republic: […] Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary[…]
Erdogan, Mossadegh & the perilous nature of post-coup politics.
Is Erdogan overreacting? Not two weeks ago, on July 15th, the Turkish army tried to overthrow the government of Turkey in a coup attempt that ultimately failed. In the aftermath of the coup, Erdogan executed[…]