From Policy, after the wall, 20 years on: A look at Germany's unification history. An article on Germany's disappointing reunification: How the East was Lost. Sex and the city of Berlin: The sexual unification of Germany appears to have resulted in lots of talk, but not much action. Finance senator to fire starter: Joachim Guntner reviews Thilo Sarrazin's book on Germany's slow death by immigration, which has ignited a debate of almost unprecedented ferocity. From Prospect, Germany seems more inward-looking and nationalistic since the euro crisis, but this shift is both more subtle and not as recent as it appears. German identity, long dormant, reasserts itself: A more confident nation has asserted itself in foreign policy, despite economic troubles and some internal dissent. From Dissent, there is so much talk these days about Germany’s economic Sonderweg (“special path”) that it seems wise to gain some perspective about what is going on. From Der Spiegel, Germany's rebirth following the annihilation of World War II is nothing short of a miracle, but the country's reconstruction was not without controversy — now, a new wave of construction is underway coupled with a new desire to rebuild the old; an interview with architect Albert Speer: "Calamity of postwar construction came from rejecting history"; and an interview with architect Christoph Ingenhoven: "Modernism is an attitude, not a style".
