Habermas: The Re-Educator

The architect of confusion

Karl Richter on Jürgen Habermas and the intellectual ruin of postwar Germany.

De mortuis nihil nisi bene—one should speak only well of the dead. In the case of Jürgen Habermas, who died on Saturday at the age of 96 in Starnberg, an exception may be warranted. Habermas was one of the principal architects of Germany’s post-1945 alignment with the West. He …