Merz’s remarks on Iran reveal a deeper habit in Western politics, reducing complex conflicts to moral labels that travel faster than reason
If you want to discern the spirit of a ruling class, you only have to listen to its pronouncements.
Occasionally, ostensibly casual utterances by a political figurehead illuminate far more than the position they were meant to clarify. Such moments can offer a rare glimpse into the habits of mind through which an entire political class interprets the world, and the ways power seeks to shape perception.
Few recent comments exemplify this phenomenon more vividly than the slogans articulated by German…
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