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Bachmann-Preis: »Falschaussagen« und »Polemik« - Tingler-Interview sorgt für Aufregung
Die Aufregung über das SPIEGEL-Interview mit Philipp Tingler zum Bachmannpreis ist groß. Von »Falschaussagen« und »Polemik« ist in Repliken die Rede. Deutschlandfunk und Süddeutsche berichten über die Reaktionen. Die neue Jury-Sprecherin Insa Wilke nimmt ausführlich Stellung. Und Thomas Strässle stellt klar, dass sein Rückzug aus der Jury nicht mit Insa Wilke zu tun habe. Hier klicken und weiterlesen: »Bachmann-Preis: »Falschaussagen« und »Polemik« – Tingler-Interview sorgt für Aufregung« >
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Ghosts in the Machine
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity, by Paul Kingsnorth. Thesis, 368 pages, $32 The historian of science E.J. Dijksterhuis memorably characterized the scientific revolution of the early modern period as a “mechanization of the world picture.” What did this amount to? And what was the character of the previous world
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States of Grace
Several times in Love and Virtue in a Secular Age, Ralph C. Hancock commends his chief interlocutor, the French political philosopher Pierre Manent, for his “humble audacity.” That is equally an attribute of Hancock’s own book. A professor of political science at Brigham Young University, Hancock has significantly advanced one of Manent’s core projects—that of
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Blowing Off The Odyssey
After watching Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in a sold-out IMAX theater, my husband and I were heading for the exit when we were attacked by smiling employees brandishing free rolled-up posters. Raising our shields, we broke through their phalanx, leaped aboard our vessel moored in the parking lot, and sailed homeward with only a few
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The Married Vine
The first marriage in Tuscan history was not between a man and a woman but between a vine and a tree. Before the Etruscans cleared these hills, they were dense with oakwood, through which wild grape vines climbed naturally toward the canopy, wedded to the forest in which they grew. The Etruscans formalized that marriage.
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Fresh Prince
Michael Anton’s Studies in Machiavellian Political Philosophy is an engaging, intelligent, and sobering work. Anton believes or hopes that the book’s essays “form something like a coherent whole.” This characterization is at once modest and immodest as befits the volume, which gratefully and repeatedly acknowledges Harvey Mansfield (to whom the book is dedicated), Leo Strauss,
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Earthly Paradise
That citizens of the United States think at all about the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is astonishing. Americans prefer the useful to the theoretical, the modern to the medieval, the plain sense to the allegorical, the unencumbered to the embellished. We are everything Dante is not. And yet Dante is widely read here, especially
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Let My People Go
Cornell professor emeritus Barry Strauss is what I like to call a “no-frills” historian. By “no frills,” I mean without capital-T Theories: though receptive to the latest techniques and discoveries, Strauss mercifully lacks the voguish academic obsession with reading everything through the lens of the latest fixation. His standard for weighing historical evidence and constructing
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The Frank Meyer-Leo Strauss Correspondence
Although Leo Strauss (1899–1973) studied political philosophy almost exclusively, he was also interested in practical politics throughout his life. He was a young Zionist, recalling in his 1970 talk “A Giving of Accounts,” “When I was 17, I was converted to Zionism—to simple, straightforward political Zionism.” Later, as a professor at the University of Chicago,
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Cowboys and Carpetbaggers
Lonesome Dove, Yellowstone, and the closing of the frontier.
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The Strenuous Game
In Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet, Dickinson State University professor of history Michael Patrick Cullinane profiles T.R.’s informal circle of advisers—men whose clustering around the president, I would argue, reveals a style of governance both new and ancient. The “Tennis Cabinet” got its name from those advising Roosevelt on matters of government before, after,
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Fall 2026 Correspondence
Who Failed Schools? I appreciate Mark Bauerlein’s fair-minded summation of my findings in The Cradle of Citizenship (“Saving Civics,” Summer 2026). He and I agree on the failures of progressive pedagogy and the merits of classical schooling. We differ over the relative responsibility of the Left and the Right for the grim state of
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‘Good Czar, Bad Boyars,’ &c
On Trump and the GOP; Mamdani and the Left; the pen of Winston Churchill; and more
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Dostoevsky’s Positively Good Man
The problem of becoming Christ-like in a world of suffering and sin
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Bachmann-Preis: Philipp Tingler wettert im SPIEGEL gegen Insa Wilke
Gleich vier Jury-Mitglieder des Bachmann-Preises traten zurück, weil sie mit der heimlichen ORF-Entscheidung nicht einverstanden waren, Insa Wilke als Jury-Vorsitzende zurückzuholen. In einem Interview mit dem SPIEGEL nennt Ex-Juror Philipp Tingler nun weitere Details. Die Rückkehr Insa Wilkes bezeichnet er als »skurril«. Hier klicken und weiterlesen: »Bachmann-Preis: Philipp Tingler wettert im SPIEGEL gegen Insa Wilke« >
Brodeln im Bruder und in seinem Umfeld
In „Broder“ erzählt Dörte Hansen in höchster Intensität und atmosphärischer Dichte von Katastrophen, Ende und Neubeginn in einem landwirtschaftlichen Familienbetrieb Rezension von Anne Amend-Söchting zu Dörte Hansen: Broder. Roman Penguin, London 2026
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