Volume 53, Number 2 · February 9, 2006
The Twins' New Poland
By Timothy Garton Ash
Peoples can be luckier than people. People are only young once. They seize their chances or miss them; then they grow old and die. Despite the anthropomorphic similes beloved of romantic nationalists—'young Italy,' 'young Germany'—peoples 'live,' in some important sense, for centuries, even millennia, sustained by real or imagined continuities of political geography and collective experience. They can be 'sick' or 'old' for hundreds of years, but then become renewed and youthful.
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