When Truth Becomes a Choice

Last week, I asked what may be the hardest question of this series: How do free people relearn the habits and disciplines that allow us to disagree well without surrendering truth? This week, I want to approach that question through a moment in history that forces us to confront it honestly.

On January 27, 1945, Allied soldiers opened the gates of Auschwitz.

What they walked into wasn’t a battlefiel…