Barely 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall—an event that was celebrated at the time as a triumph of freedom and hope over despair—the united country today is frozen with fear. It’s as if the East Germans have exacted a delayed revenge on their brothers and sisters in the West: Your political model may have won, but we’ll infect your society by reviving militant antimilitarism, a yearning for security at all cost, and a craze for distributive justice—until the whole country is paralyzed.
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