Can We Live With Not Knowing?

Fanny Brawne. 

I spent much of education perplexed about why Europe let Hitler rise. We discussed it in high school, college, and graduate school. The question was the great mystery of history, the desolate center of modernism, and—for a student in the humanities—the great test of one’s moral intelligence. 

Then I graduated. But the mysteries didn’t. Brie…