Giuliano da Empoli's latest novel "The Magician in the Kremlin" has a toxic effect because it cements resentments and stereotypes instead of helping to dissolve them.

The media elites have discovered a "new guiding culture" in what they call "morality. Politicians are guided by this "code of values" and produce policies that they believe will please the media and thus conform to majority opinion.

The information policy of fact checkers encourages stereotypical, quick and unconscious thinking. Very few fact-checkers stimulate strenuous, logical, calculating and conscious thinking.

The (re)production of simple political explanations is encouraged by digital media. Fact-checking platforms act as production sites of the simplest opinion-making, in the service of the technostructure.

Independent critical thinking in children is to be prevented before it can even develop. It is replaced by indoctrinated ideas.

On 14 September, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen began her speech - with reference to Ukraine and Russia - with a key sentence. If we look at this sentence from a different perspective, the alternative speech script almost unfolds itself.

Controversies are meaningful if they take place in a climate of mutual respect. If we succeed in constantly arousing “curiosity about the different” anew, we will not only remain ready to talk, but will also be able to broaden our own horizons.

Quite rarely are narratives the result of rational analysis; rather, they arise from the coincidental confluence of wishful thinking, value judgments, day-to-day politics, and the adherence to the order government elites have invented.

Instead of engaging in substantial political discourse within and outside their own ranks, the EU elite continue to promulgate dogmata to justify their ignorance of one another’s sovereignty.

Leading German language media is creating its own conception of the world and thereby refraining from its grip on reality. A short analysis based on the interview with the President of the Russian Federation with Austrian Broadcasting Corporation.