Article by Jürgen Habermas

From Here On, We Must Go It Alone

It is not possible to separate the crisis experienced by the Jews from that experienced by Europe—and the latter has just taken a decisive turn. In this text, delivered on November 19 in Munich, Jürgen Habermas makes an unequivocal observation: the America that embodied a certain idea of the West no longer exists. What is happening there—the purge of the executive branch, the neutralization of the law, the silence of a civil society that reserves its indignation for other causes—is a regime change legitimized by the ballot box. For Europe, caught in an alliance that has lost its normative coherence, it is time to take stock, however bitter it may be, without losing hope.

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