The award-winning columnist Harald Martenstein is always opinionated, witty, and entertaining. His favorite tool is common sense, and his adversaries are whiners, know-it-alls, and dogmatists. He has no fear of being unpopular.

The new volume contains a selection of the best columns from the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. Martenstein writes with equal sharpness about the Federal Youth Games, the "Seepferdchen" swimming badge, or a cruise, as well as the evening arrival at Berlin's main airport or the attempt to invite friends for dinner despite not being able to cook at all. He particularly enjoys poking fun at the confusions surrounding cancel culture, wokeness, and political correctness. "Please don't stop making fun of gendering" is the most common phrase that Harald Martenstein hears from his readers.