Die Loved. Die having done good. Die leaving something meaningful behind. Designs for life from the examples of Patrick Stewart and Bonnie Greer. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/die-loved-le...

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I recommend @uwewittstock.bsky.social ’s books about the plight of writers and artists when the Nazis came to power. Some fled, some became propagandists for the new regime, some were imprisoned or killed, and some, quite simply, became silent. Perhaps Janan Ganesh would care to take a look.

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To those of us who have studied German history and indeed literature, the suggestion that sophisticated ennui and detached self-care is the right way to deal with historical turmoil is rather painful.

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My own book about Britain ends with an epilogue about Mann’s work for the BBC. I wrote it on the day when Trump announced that he would sue the BBC. If you must know, my hands were shaking on my keyboard as I wrote this.

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Also, if you are going to make a case for “innere Emigration” let us not the forget the many people who did and do not have that option. And let us at least consider Hannah Arendt’s argument who called the concept of “innere Emigration“ “quite simply, a lie”.

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