In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that provoked both admiration and outrage. This work overturns this view, showing how Kraus’…

Composed in emulation (and to some degree as a satire) of a Platonic dialogue, this book presents a stimulating, provocative, and thoroughly timely reckoning with one of the great problems…