John Foster / 29 May 2026
Neither Democracy Nor Dictatorship
Weimar Republic 2.0
What most closely links the post-2008 world to Weimar Germany is not extremism, but a deepening loss of confidence in liberal institutions.
(...)
Decisionism
John Foster / 27 Feb 2026
The State Comes First
Giorgia Meloni’s Years of Lead
Giorgia Meloni has discovered that the most useful period of Italian history is not the Fascist era but the Years of Lead.(...)
John Foster / 23 Jan 2026
Selling Out to the Far Right
Manfred Weber and the Logic of Trumpism
For Donald Trump, Greenland is both an absurd fixation and an almost perfect one.(...)