My wife and I saw a trailer for a remake of the film, “Red Dawn.” Toward the end of the trailer, a character says, “To them this is just a place, but to us, THIS IS OUR HOME.”

Ironic, is it not?

A patriotic treatise or patriotic parody? A political satire? How can a film both inspire a feeling of idealistic national pride AND question one’s tendencies toward nationalistic idealism?

Time to [re]read Karl Jaspers’ “The Question of German Guilt” and find the answer(s).