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Category Archives: Germany
David Stahel and the Wehrmacht Myth
A lieutenant rides in the back of a staff car east of Minsk in July 1941. The road behind him holds a captured Soviet army, a pocket closed, a victory the field bulletins already call decisive. He has seen the … Continue reading
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Jürgen Habermas: The Unforced Force of the Better Argument
Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) ranks as the leading German philosopher of the postwar period and the central figure of the Frankfurt School’s second generation. For more than seven decades he defended a single proposition: that free societies can govern themselves through … Continue reading
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David Stahel: Historian of German Defeat in the East
David Stahel (b. 1975) is a New Zealand military historian whose work on the German invasion of the Soviet Union reshaped the historiography of the Eastern Front. Born in Wellington, he belongs to a post-Cold War generation of historians who … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Germany Now
Grok says: Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full diplomatic throttle in the Kanzleramt, the Foreign Ministry, the Economy Ministry, and the coalition-party strategy rooms right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign in its second month, Khamenei martyred, Iranian oil … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Germany’s Master Institutions
Germany’s high-status actors do not compete for power by openly claiming it. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as responsible, lawful, and necessary for stability. This is the core insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory. Moral … Continue reading
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WEHT To Thilo Sarrazin (Author of Germany Abolishes Itself)?
Grok says: Thilo Sarrazin, the German economist, former SPD politician, Berlin finance senator, and ex-Bundesbank board member, remains a prominent and controversial figure known for his sharp critiques of immigration, particularly from Muslim-majority countries, as well as related topics like … Continue reading
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The Philosopher of the Gate
Jürgen Habermas spent his career arguing that legitimate political outcomes emerge from open, rational communication among equals. He built an elaborate theory around this idea, called communicative rationality, and used it to describe a public sphere where private citizens reason … Continue reading
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The Alternative for Germany Trajectory
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would read the rise and evolution of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a sequence of coalition discoveries, failures, and partial consolidations rather than as a simple story of “radicalization” or ideological drift. Phase 1. The technocratic … Continue reading
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The “German Historians’ Dispute” (German: Historikerstreit)
Google notes: “The “German Historians’ Dispute” (German: Historikerstreit) was a highly publicized and controversial debate among German historians in the late 1980s and early 1990s, primarily sparked by the publication of a controversial article in 1986 that downplayed the severity … Continue reading
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The Role Of God In Hitler’s Panzers East
David Stahel writes in his 2023 book Hitler’s Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded: A common set of beliefs that all four generals shared was their relationship to the Protestant Church and the significance this assumed in explaining … Continue reading
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