Auf deutsch, wie immer

But that’s just the personal part of my grief. More generally, it’s just a shame there doesn’t seem to be a market for a paper like this in Austria today. Prove me wrong, please.

Having run the Austrian part in the French résistance at enormous personal risk, Marek was a close friend of my grandfather who I wrote my first piece for the new Tagebuch about a few years ago.

tagebuch.at/2022/03/ein-...

What makes this personally painful for me is the fact that Tagebuch was the revival of another Austrian publication of the same name, run by the communist dissident Ephraim Feuerlicht aka Franz Marek in the 60s & 70s. Read his (auto)biography if you haven’t:

www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/fran...

…and obviously the decline of public discourse on and through social media (yes, the irony).
And while on the subject, let’s not forget the shitstorm created by certain people against Tagebuch about a podcast that never even happened.

So many obvious reasons why this has happened:
The way (particularly the Austrian & German) Left has split, largely along generational lines on subjects like gender, racism/“woke”, Israel/Palestine, the decline of people willing to buy a physical magazine, the ever rising costs of production…

fm4.orf.at/radio/storie...

HUGE APOLOGIES TO EVERYBODY LISTENING.
THROUGH, AS I HAVE NOW ASCERTAINED,
M Y O W N F A U L T
they're playing the show from Jan 12. I just sent the wrong one by accident.
Has never happened and should never happened but can't be undone now.

the rest of the piece:

Anything must be better than hypocrisy, but where do the principles come in?

…Pragmatic in recognising that progress is often incremental, that interests diverge, that not every partner shares our values.“
So you do business with bad people but you no longer pretend they’re good. Which is a step forward, but how do you apply moral pressure, and what are your values worth?