David JUDSON

 In Berlin this past week, I learned of a new political-sociological syndrome. I suppose its comparable to those maladies more familiar in political discourse: “compassion fatigue,” or “imperial overstretch,” or even the well-known “Vietnam Syndrome.” It is just that it is more insidious and subject to various mutations. This term, new to me, is “Pet […]

In Berlin this past week, I learned of a new political-sociological syndrome. I suppose its comparable to those maladies more familiar in political discourse: “compassion fatigue,” or “imperial overstretch,” or even the well-known “Vietnam Syndrome.” It is just that it is more insidious and subject to various mutations. This term, new to me, is “Pet […]