Unframed | Yasemin Aydın

How Do We Remember a Past We Never Lived?

An evening of Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, and Syriac music in Germany opens a much larger question: What happens to a society when generations are…

Oct 13 • Yasemin Aydın

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The Most Dangerous Thing We Could Outsource to AI Is Our Own Judgement

At a presentation during the Frankfurt Book Fair, a question emerged that deserves far more attention than the latest technological breakthrough: What…

Oct 12 • Yasemin Aydın

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When You Leave a Country but the Country Does Not Leave You

On Gazelle, exile, fractured belonging and the strange work of building a life after the life you knew has ended

Oct 7 • Yasemin Aydın

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You Don’t Have to Believe the Lie. You Just Have to Get Tired.

Right Before Our Eyes - Part 1

Oct 2 • Yasemin Aydın

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September 2026

Beyond Protest: How the AfD Became a Political Home

GERMANY AT A DEMOCRATIC THRESHOLD

Sep 12 • Yasemin Aydın

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A Life Is Not a Project

What Soul, psychology and older traditions of moral formation can teach us about success, character and the lives we actually inhabit

Sep 5 • Yasemin Aydın

The Trouble With Becoming a Better Person

From Schiller’s “beautiful soul” to the curated self, our pursuit of self-improvement can quietly turn from an ethical project into a performance.

Sep 5 • Yasemin Aydın

August 2026

42 Percent Is More Than a Protest Vote: Why Saxony-Anhalt Matters Far Beyond Eastern Germany

Saxony-Anhalt may account for only around 2.5 percent of Germany’s population. Yet its state election on September 6 could become one of the most…

Aug 30 • Yasemin Aydın

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Organized Doubt

What if modern propaganda does not need you to believe a lie—but only to doubt that the truth can ever be known?

Aug 23 • Yasemin Aydın

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"Manufactured Fatigue"

How permanent crisis, information overload and scandals without consequences make the unacceptable feel ordinary.

Aug 16 • Yasemin Aydın

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Trapping Homer in the Décor of the Present

What happens when an ancient epic is made to speak the psychological and moral language of the present? Nolan’s The Odyssey may reveal more about our…

Aug 16 • Yasemin Aydın

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June 2026

Reclaiming the Narrative: From Organized Doubt to the Courage to Speak

In the early 1950s, social psychologist Solomon Asch designed one of the most famous experiments on conformity.

Jun 26 • Yasemin Aydın

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