A Failed State Shaped the 20th Century. Can Today’s Leaders Avoid Its Fate?

A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse ...
The New York Times

Book Review: ‘Vertigo,’ by Harald Jähner

The Weimar Republic was a hotbed of cultural experimentation. A new history argues that its demise was not inevitable. By Thomas Meaney Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta. When you purchase an ...
MinnPost

Parallels between Weimar Germany and our present are too striking to ignore

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Recent MinnPost articles have eloquently sounded the alarm regarding one of the ...
Washington Examiner

False echoes of Weimar

Nevertheless, in the preface to German historian Volker Ullrich’s new history, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, we hear that because “Democracies are fragile” and “can flip into ...