The day after the Queen died, a joke did the rounds on Twitter: “Germany also has a symbolic figurehead with no real power whose function is to ideologically bind the nation together. We call him ‘Jürgen Habermas’.” The country has long had a solemn reverence for public intellectuals such as... read full story
"Germany also has a symbolic figurehead with no real power whose function is to ideologically bind the nation together. We call him ‘Jürgen Habermas'."