Germany

Had any one of three plausible scenarios happened, the Second World War might have been concluded a year earlier, sparing millions of lives

‘In Germany, whether it’s a matter of beansprouts or nuclear power plants, moral superiority can quickly turn into self-centred hysteria’

‘When Mr Googleberg attempts a comeback, he will come up against a German attachment to truth and decency’

‘Every woman among male egos knows she has to fight a war—an older colleague calling you “Blondie”, for instance’

‘Who would want a dusty collection of children’s books, their spines broken, written in German?’

The Turkish-born German sociologist and critic of Islamism Necla Kelek and the classical liberal economist Karen Horn discuss the failure of integration with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson, in Berlin

The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson; Fame by Daniel Kehlmann; The Box by Günter Grass; and Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius