A journalist named Carolin Würfel tries to explain, using the example of the writer Jenny Erpenbeck, why West Germany is to blame when East Germany votes for the right-wing AfD or is intending to do so. As she writes in the “Guardian:”
Category: The Future of Culture
I have been saying this for many years: secularism, or rather the idea of a predominantly secularist state, i.e. a state separate from organized religion, is not simply a Western idea that has no traction in societies in the rest of the world. A notable article in Aeon argues on behalf of Iranian secularism and why proponents of postcolonialist theory fundamentally misunderstand it: