The values of modern Germany help limit COVID-19 fatalities

William Collins Donahue, Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities and director of the Initiative for Global Europe at the Keough School of Global Affairs, evaluates the German government’s response to the coronavirus in an interview on ABC Radio National. 

“It is true that Merkel was appealing to individuals. But she was appealing to their sense of community, she was also appealing to their sense of responsibility to one another, to the larger good . . . ”

Originally aired on abc.net.au on April 1, 2020

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Letter from Germany: A democracy hunkers down

William Collins Donahue, Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities and director of the Initiative for Global Europe at the Keough School of Global Affairs, compares presidential responses to the coronavirus epidemic in the United States and Germany in a Commonweal op-ed.

“Who would have thought that seventy-five years after the end of World War II it would be the United States that would need to take lessons in democracy from Germany?”

Originally published at commonwealmagazine.org on March 23, 2020

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