![]() ![]() Yale historian Timothy Snyder thinks we in the West became unreflective, and lazy in our use of language. “How did we enter the contemporary world of polarizing politics and encroaching authoritarianism? All seemed fine after the Wall fell and communism disintegrated-until it was fine no longer. ![]() You can read a résumé of the evening on the website of the Academy. ![]() I wanted to record impressions and parts of Timonthy Snyder’s lecture at the American Academy in Berlin. The walkman stopped working, and it got back into a short-lived existence when I stood on the platform of the S-Bahn station, waiting for the train to get back home. I wanted to record another Letter from Berlin. On a dark and cold Winter’s day I travelled to the very west of Berlin, to Wannsee. ![]()
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