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Byline: Thomas Meaney The Antagonist Why Neo Rauch can't avoid controversy. I first met the German painter Neo Rauch shortly before Christmas last year, in Leipzig. It was one of [...]

Byline: Thomas Meaney Rising in the East The secret history of Asian nationalism. International conferences are notoriously difficult to organize, all the more so when the aim is global revolution [...]

Byline: Thomas Meaney The Wages of Realism Making sense of Henry Kissinger. tifPhotograph by Yousuf KarshKissinger in 1972. Recent works in the vast literature on him have questioned fundamental assumptions [...]

Byline: Thomas Meaney Doktor Zeitgeist Germany's celebrity philosopher explains the age of rage. One weekend last June, in an auditorium in the German city of Karlsruhe, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk [...]

Byline: Thomas Meaney Germany's New Nationalists The country's resurgent far right has a surprising face. You can tell well in advance when Frauke Petry, the leader of Alternative fér Deutschland, [...]