What's New Again?

Ellen Schrecker: The search for an outside enemy who might be turning our earnest best interests against us is misguided. She says if we want to have a serious conversation about what we want U.S. society to look like, we will need to engage genuinely in examination of this country's history and practices. We're joined now by Ellen Schrecker, now retired professor of American history at Yeshiva University; she joins us by phone.