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In the face of a world that threatens to slide into tyranny and new authoritarianism, the power of resistance lies in this era. It is necessary to resist the temptation to reduce this complex world to ridiculous simplifications, and avoid the trap of excessive moderation. * Robert Messick's award-winning essays are characterized by radical ambition, style and eloquence, engaging and easy to understand. With enthusiasm, the writer defines his position between the two opposing camps. Messick opposes the “destruction of the mind” by neo-fascism, while at the same time taking aim at some of the absurdities of the contemporary left. Misick describes the political devastation of our time with cultural depth, and highlights the political radicalism of artists such as Anni Ernault, Franz Kafka, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and George Orwell, as relevant to our times. Robert Messick, born in 1966, is a journalist and political writer who regularly writes for the Berlin newspapers Tageszeitung, Die Zeit and Neue Züricher Zeitung, and the Austrian magazine Walter. He has won many awards, including the Bruno Krajewski Progress Award, the 2010 Journalist of the Year Award in the Electronic Journalism category, and the Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism 2009. He has many books, the most recent of which is “Politik von unten”, published by Picos Publishing House in 2023. www.misik.at