his mother, escaped the nazis having been an inmate in the bergen—belsen concentration camp.escaped the gulag, having been sent there by the soviet union. danny finkelstein, welcome to political thinking. as a columnist, as an adviser as well, you've argued in defense of what you always call moderation. we might come to what "moderation" is in a second, but i sense in your recent writing, you fear that that is under threat in a way you never thought it was before. yeah, i think i do. you know, i have always been so confident about this country. my parents came here as refugees, as you said. and i'vde felt that. . .they certainly felt completely relaxed about the idea that the rule of law and the kind of tranquility of the suburbs and the rule of truth would not be disturbed. and my father was, you know, felt it so strongly, he always discouraged me, even from doing such breaking of the law as taping music from the radio or giving people, people's intellectual property rights to other people. i wouldn't say i've reached the point where i think that is all in imminent danger, b