The death of Christa Wolf has left Germany bereft of a powerful bridge of literary consciousness, whose universal work could talk to a once-divided nation

Had any one of three plausible scenarios happened, the Second World War might have been concluded a year earlier, sparing millions of lives

‘In Germany, whether it’s a matter of beansprouts or nuclear power plants, moral superiority can quickly turn into self-centred hysteria’

The Left must abstain from lionizing the life and work of the Polish-born German Marxist martyr, Rosa Luxemburg