Telling Lies and Getting Away With It
It was in early 1943, while the war in Europe continued to rage, that a young woman named Simone Weil, who would not live to see its end, set down a series of reflections on the spiritual renewal that France, then under brutal occupation, would need to undergo once the Nazi menace had finally been driven out. She called it The Need for Roots, foremost of which, she insisted, was the need for truth…