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The power of ideas
Christa Case Bryant
In a 1938 speech addressed to the American people, Winston Churchill spoke of why weapons alone could not defeat Nazi Germany. “We must add to them the power of ideas,” he said, noting the antagonism between two systems of thought: Nazidom and democracy. “It is this very conflict of spiritual and moral ideas which gives the free countries a great part of their strength.” Nearly nine decades later, faced with a popular far-right party and questions about whether it should be banned, Germany is wrestling with how to protect its democracy without undermining it.
