Angela Merkel, the German chancellor who many are calling “the leader of the free world,” is giving it to us straight. Here is a taste of Justin Davidson’s New York Magazine coverage of Merkel’s recent coronavirus speech: Angela Merkel doesn’t...
Germans
The Strange Career of German Religious Influence in America
Ralph Keen is writing for us this week from the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History in New York City. Keen is Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation Chair of Catholic Studies and Professor of History at the University...
Benjamin Franklin’s Thoughts on Germans
Here is a taste Franklin’s Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind. We talked about this letter today in my Colonial America course. 23. In fine, A Nation well regulated is like a Polypus; take away a Limb, its Place is soon...