German Weekly Freitag Examines Divided Realities from Cornell 7 to AfD

The German weekly newspaper Freitag published an analysis on how diverging perceptions are fracturing societies, using the Cornell 7 case in the United States and French student protests as examples. In the US, the dispute over the Cornell 7 illustrates a situation where one side refuses to acknowledge the other's reality, according to Veronika Kracher's examination. In France, student protests are similarly contested: while no one doubts their existence, their "violence" and scale are described very differently, and commentary on their causes remains perplexed, with Romy Straßenburg reporting from France. Elsewhere, speculation arises about whether a smartphone ban in schools could act as a catalyst. The article also questions the role of comedy in public debate. The piece appears in the current issue of Freitag.