Can Weimar Germany Help Us Now?
Evan Kuehn on Humberto Beck If you want to draw a simplistic historical analogy that emphasizes the sheer evil of a person, there
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Monastic Reform in the 12th Century
Kevin Lord on Alison Beach The late eleventh and early twelfth centuries in the Holy Roman Empire were a period of dynamism and
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Heinrich Heine: A Life of Contradictions
David Biale on George Prochnik Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany. While Moses Mendelssohn achieved fame
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Secularism as A New Religion
Evan Kuehn on Todd Weir Many people take the idea as mere common sense: as societies advance, religion declines. This is the secularization
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Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin – Daniela Blei
On April 13, 2011, Bernd Neumann, Germany’s Minister of Culture and a member of Angela Merkel’s ruling center-right party, made an announcement. After
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