Volume 38, Number 1 & 2 · January 17, 1991
Germany at the Frontier
By Timothy Garton Ash
It was 'historic,' to be sure, but exciting it was not, this first free all-German election in nearly sixty years. Indeed, it was a considerable national achievement to make such an important election campaign so consummately boring. I say this with only slight irony. For there is something truly remarkable in the matter-of-fact normality with which Germany has settled down to being a united democratic state.
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