The Fall 2019 Berlin Journal
The thirty-third issue of the Berlin Journal features a suite of related essays on the fragility and composition of democracy: Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky on How Democracies Die; Steven Klein on the role of debt in post-WWII democracies; and Laura D’Andrea Tyson on how Germany is successfully navigating the automation of its industrial sector. Plus, fiction by Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Angela Flournoy, and Paul La Farge; Suki Kim on her reporting from North Korea; artwork by Renée Green; and essays on literary history by Azade Seyhan, Tatyana Gershkovich, and Liliane Weissberg, along with several essays from the June 2019 Andrew W. Mellon workshop.
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