Clarity of Thought
An unpublished essay from 2007, with some interesting predictions, and optimism, about how change was going to come.
Life and Death at the Brandenburg Gate
I first visited the Brandenburg Gate as a student, just before the Berlin Wall came down. I went with my mother, a first-generation Holocaust survivor; she later died there, exactly there, of natural causes. I revisited the memorial last summer, with my sons and German wife and family. Here’s an essay about reunification, reconciliation, and forgiveness.