Against Politics

Toward a depoliticized society

Peter Sloterdijk on the predatory German welfare state

As the United States makes rapid progress to become just another European-style welfare state, one of Germany’s most controversial intellectuals, Peter Sloterdijk, initiates a public debate  with an offensive on the welfare state that takes no prisoners, even by American standards: To assess the unprecedented scale that the modern democratic state has attained in Europe, [...]