Sophie Scholl and the Gift of Attention

In which I'm convicted

I was pleased to make my debut at Law & Liberty the other week with a piece on the remarkable life and death of Sophie Scholl. In a rare departure from the norm in the writing business, it ran with my original suggested headline: “A Woman for All Seasons” (which I later was a bit annoyed though unsurprised to find someone else had thought of first). Thi…