Christian Sterzik

„Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie anstelle des Fetischs Privateigentum“. Eine grundgesetzliche Wertentscheidung als „Fetisch“ diffamiert, finanziert aus öffentlichen Mitteln. Finde den Fehler.

Students who denounce Western civilization forget: their right to protest is one of its gifts. Free speech, assembly, and petition are not accidents—they are Western achievements. In this essay for @RestoringWest, @jarobinson1 of @AcademicRenewal reminds us: the freedoms used to condemn the West are its inheritance.

@johndyer @CTmagazine Thanks for sharing this. Do you think the "no ai for writing, not even grammarly" clause ist motivated by ethical reasons or the need to be legally secure against third parties, that could claim parts of their text were regurgitated by an ai and thereby plagiated...

I really appreciate @CTmagazine posting their AI usage policy for writers, with clears set of "may" and "may not", emphasizing the human roles. @christianitytoday/note/c-240780046" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@christianityt…

"Ich habe den Eindruck, dass viele, die als Demokratie-Schützer auftreten, staatlich oder selbsternannt im zivilgesellschaftlichen Bereich, ein Demokratieverständnis haben, das nicht mit dem des Grundgesetzes übereinstimmt." Prof. Hans-Jürgen Papier, @welt👇

Fun fact: You can speak to the REAL Jesus for free in prayer anytime, anywhere, anyday.👀

I have to give @X and @nikitabier props for the new X algorithm. Seriously. As this is stuff I do not post regularly, usually these posts would run dead. Now it sits at 270 likes and several very useful and interesting replies from many nationalities. The idea of the global townsquare seems to be finally materializing. And it's not political engagement bait, but niche technical discussion. Good stuff.

We’re entering a postliterate age. That’s why image-rich Catholicism is trending and text-based Protestantism isn’t. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

Last night I spoke with Brad Smith @ALScyborg, the first person with ALS to have @neuralink implanted. He has his voice back through AI and can even make dad jokes again. Absolutely incredible technology changing lives and bettering humanity. Thank you @elonmusk!

New perspectives of our home planet. As Artemis II flew around the Moon on April 6, the crew captured these images of a crescent Earth from hundreds of thousands of miles away. See the latest photos and videos: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

Die Branche der Erneuerbaren ist erwachsen geworden und muss jetzt Verantwortung übernehmen – systemisch und finanziell. Das schreibt Ministerin Reiche im Gastbeitrag in der @FAZ_NET. Wind und Sonne schicken keine Rechnung. Das Gesamtsystem aber wohl. faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc…

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia. The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue. India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive. The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear. But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth. The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale. India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper. The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply. The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too. When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

"Sie können es nicht lassen, politische Konfrontationen in moralische Diffamierungen zu verwandeln." Monika Maron in „Immer noch freundlich, aber kaum noch geduldig“. Tagebücher 1980 - 2021

Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme. The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality. This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme. A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.

To: Admitted Students on Ivy Decision Day From: UATX Congratulations. Getting in was hard and you should be proud. Now here’s some unsolicited advice so you don’t waste the next four years. Go to class. We know this sounds obvious. But as the New York Times reported recently, Harvard students routinely skip class, rarely speak up when they're there, and focus on their devices instead of the discussion. Faculty say few students do enough preparation to contribute meaningfully. The average college student spends about 20 hours a week on class and studying combined. At UATX, we aim for 50. That’s the difference between a part-time commitment and a full-time job. You (or your parents) are about to spend upwards of $90K a year. If you don't show up, you're paying roughly $250 per skipped lecture for the privilege of sleeping in. Read the books yourself. Your generation is the first to arrive at college post-literate — raised on short-form video, dependent on algorithms, and increasingly incapable of sitting with a difficult text long enough to let it change your mind. Ninety percent of college students use AI academically. This makes you more reliant on the authority of others. Most professors will also stand between you and the text. They’ll tell you what Marx “really meant,” what Aristotle “failed to see,” as though an academic in 2026 has outsmarted minds that shaped civilizations. The good professors do the opposite: they put you in front of the book and they work with you to find what a great mind has to teach us directly. Find those professors, and read everything yourself. Say what you actually think. Seventy-three percent of conservative students report withholding their political views in class out of fear their grades will suffer. Our advice isn't political; it's intellectual. If you spend four years learning to say what's expected instead of what's true, you’ll graduate roughly where you started — just older, more credentialed, and more practiced at self-censorship. One study finds that nearly half of students show no measurable gains in “critical thinking” after two years in college. Keep this in mind as you make decisions about which professors to take and how to do your assignments. Taking a small hit on your paper to gain integrity and wisdom is usually worth it. Ask for real grades. Sixty percent of Harvard undergraduate grades are now A’s. Twenty-five years ago, it was 20%. It got so bad that the legendary Harvard professor, Harvey Mansfield, started giving students two grades: the official one for their transcript, and a private one reflecting what they actually earned. He called the official grades “ironic.” So here's a suggestion: Take your A, but also ask your professors for a “Mansfield grade” so that you know where you stand. And don’t avoid difficult courses to keep your transcript clean for law school. Get work experience before you graduate. Forty-two percent of recent college graduates are working jobs that don't require a degree. Many employers are projecting the next few years to be the worst college grad job market in years. A degree alone — even from an Ivy — is not a job guarantee. Seek out apprenticeships, internships, and real work starting freshman year. The students at UATX are connected with entrepreneurs and business leaders from day one. Many will graduate with four years of work experience alongside their degree. You can build something similar at your school, but you'll have to do it yourself. Understand how debt shapes your life. If you're paying full freight or even half, do the math with your eyes open. Your decision to take on debt will quietly reshape the trajectory of your adult life through countless small surrenders: the job you take because it’s safe instead of starting the company. The city you choose to live in. The relationship you delay and the kids you don’t have. For women, a $1,000 increase in student loan debt lowers the odds of marriage by 2% per month in the first four years after graduation. None of that shows up in the college brochure. If you're going to take on debt, treat it like the constraint it is from day one: save aggressively and make sure every dollar is buying something that will actually compound in your favor. Find the people who take school seriously. The best thing about a great school isn't the lectures or the library. It's the handful of professors and students who are genuinely there to learn — who read ahead, argue in good faith, and push you to be sharper. Find them. UATX is a small community of those who seek a serious education. At a larger university, you have to build this community yourself. * The most dangerous thing about an elite university is that it is very easy to do nothing for four years and still come out looking successful. The transcript will say you excelled. The diploma with the fancy crest will open certain doors. Your parents will be proud. And yet you will have coasted — through inflated grades, unread books, and borrowed opinions. Getting in is an accomplishment. Making the next four years worth it will be harder, and the right decisions will change everything. We wish you luck.

Erinnerst du dich noch, wann du dich hier registriert hast? Ich weiß es noch! #MeinXJubiläum

Easter is not sentiment—it is truth: sacrifice, forgiveness, and resurrection. A civilization cannot be renewed if it forgets the faith that shaped it. My Easter message is now available at @RestoringWest.

Der Kampf um die #Meinungsfreiheit ist kein Kampf zwischen "links" und "rechts" - jedenfalls sollte er das nicht sein. Meinungsfreiheit unterscheidet die freiheitlich Demokratie von totalitären Systemen.

Allen meinen treu gebliebenen und neuen Followern wünsche ich eine frohes und gesegnetes Osterfest. Das Straßenbild wurde zum Osterfest im #Corona-Pandemiejahr 2021 gemalt. Damals wie heute gelten die Worte Dietrich Bonhoeffers. Bleiben wir hoffnungsvoll u. zuversichtlich!

Greetings on Easter. This sacred day celebrates hope and renewal. May it bring peace, joy and brightness to everyone’s lives. May the teachings of Jesus Christ inspire all to be kind and strengthen the spirit of togetherness in society.