The notion that Germany has special responsibilities due to the Holocaust influences Merkel’s outlook on the world significantly. But this is not to say everything is rosy.
Into the hell of Bosnia entered Susan Sontag. It was July 1993, her second visit, and she was in Sarajevo to direct a production of Waiting for Godot.
Refugees are flocking to the European continent in ever-growing numbers, and Europeans show increasing resistance to accepting them.
The Man Booker award-winning British author gives The Merchant of Venice a new twist. And no, he doesn’t think Shakespeare was an anti-Semite.
France’s public intellectual no.1 has become its number-one defender of Jews—and democratic intervention around the world.
