How many of us remember that Europe is a new and unprecedented political creation born from the triple rejection of Nazism, Communism, and colonialism?
How many continue to venerate the models of lucidity and courage, the examples of combativeness and greatness, that were the Vaclav Havels, the Sakharovs, the founders of Solidarnosc, the fiery dissidents of the Soviet Union?
And how many of us, conversely, have not rested easily since learning that the memories of Auschwitz, Kolyma, and the struggles against empires–in short, the “never again” that supposedly is the foundation of postmodernity–did not prevent the genocide of the Tutsis, or …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
