# KunstlerCast 438 — Stephan Sanders-Faes on Europe's Glide Path to Suicide

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Published: 2026-02-05T20:43:00+00:00
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## Resource

Stephan Sander-Faes is a professor of history teaching European civilization at the University of Bergen, Norway (faculty profile: https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Stephan.Sander-Faes ). His work focuses mainly on post-mediaeval (Central) Europe. He blogs semi-anonymously about European affairs at ht tps://fackel.substack.com / (click and sign up, it's free). When he's not teaching, he tends to his livestock (follow his sheep at htt ps://bsky.app/profile/ramsesandhisgang.bsky.socia l ). In whatever spare time he has left, he explores our analogue, pre-internet world cataloging his late grandfather's vintage picture postcard collection, which you may as well check out over at https://espc.substack.com . The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

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