With Roger Cohen and Mirjam Zadoff.

Roger Cohen, a columnist for the New York Times, speaks with Mirjam Zadoff, Director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, about current societal trends in the United States and across the world. Topics range from the uncertainties brought on by social inequality and COVID-19 to populism and the emotionalization of political discourse and beyond, including dealing with grief and trauma and the chance to forge ties through transnational, collective memory.

They talk about the internal divisions in the United States and the disastrous Trump presidency and about wishes and hopes for EU politics at the international level. One key question through it all is how to strengthen democracy.

The talk is accompanied by music by Dota Kehr, who set poems by Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko to music.