Here’s a ridiculously broad generalization based on nothing more than reading headlines and book titles during two days in Munich but…
Germany seems depressed — not economically but emotionally. And I’m not talking about the people but the journalists and the politicians. On bookshelves, I saw plenty of titles pondering whither Germany and opportunities lost. In the papers I (tried to) read, I saw plenty of headlines and stories about no end of knotty social issues. There’s a new regime taking charge and no one is jazzed about it because it is truly a none-of-the-above government.
