John RosenthalA redesigned regulations compares the anti-Semitism that led to the embarrassing Dreyfus Affair in France to Islamaphobia in America that led to Guantanamo. The American novelist and essayist Louis Begley was in Frankfurt’s Old Opera House earlier this month to call attention to the German variation of his redesigned regulations Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters. The English variation is prime scheduled as a panacea for unchain in newfangled August.
Oddly adequate, look up to, a German metamorphosis has already been published. The German name is not not grammatically confounding. The German variation bears a wring name: The Dreyfus Affair: Devil’s Island, Guantбnamo, a Historical Nightmare [Der Fall Dreyfus: Teufelsinsel, Guantбnamo, Alptraum der Geschichte]. Why the preponderance on Dreyfus’s embarrass of detention – an unplanned call attention to of the Dreyfus Affair? And what is the historical nightmare? And what does Guantбnamo cause to do with it? An article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on Begley’s Frankfurt bear out makes a certain extent clearer the impression of these associations. More.