Category World

“In the beginning was the press and then the world appeared,” Karl Kraus wrote in 1921. The biblical allusion was no rhetorical flourish. Living through an apocalyptic era, the Austrian writer, and arguably the first major media critic, had reason…

At least seven people have died in severe flooding across central and eastern Europe. Torrential rain brought by Storm Boris has affected areas from Germany to Romania. The state of Lower Austria has been declared a disaster zone. Tens of…