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The fight for Ukraine — and democracy
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is There Really a Present Moment?
i think most of us, for very understandable reasons, have a fairly limited time horizon. Yet we live in history, yea, but we exist in our world and our time. In the past and the future are distant abstractions. And yet we still have to remember where we've come from and what we've transcended. How do we get people to always stay grounded in the struggles of now, but also keeping an eye towards history? And all the lessons it has to teach?" i'm struck by how when i ask people, which of my routine questions, what book you have by your bedside table, how often it is a history book"
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