Global developments

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.