Against Pessimism

in which I argue that pacifism doesn't always bring peace.

On Sunday, I was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. This is a prize that has been awarded every year since 1950. The prize is presented during the Frankfurt book fair, one of the world’s biggest literary and publishing events, in the Paulskirche. This is the church where, among other things, the first German National Assembly wrote the fi…