Christina Gerhardt is a visiting scholar at Columbia University who is finishing Critique of Ethical Violence: The Trauma of Terrorism, a book about the representations of the Red Army Faction in literature, art and film. Her articles have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Nation and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Culture
Romancing the Terrorists
The Baader Meinhof Complex glamorizes a Cold War-era German terrorist group without questioning its politics and violence.
Christina Gerhardt
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