The Importance of Dealing With the Past

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I grew up in a small town in Bavaria and he comes to Cambridge Mass and he feels suddenly free. I'm rather more skeptical than I think you have been about how some of that has played out both about how thoroughly it's shaped society but also perhaps about whether an over obsession with it which I think did mark the German public was ultimately helpful to building a better society. Being a Jew is still just as problematic in Mississippi as they are in parts of Germany now. You know what John's called for gun heights for basically its closest of feeling with a past has been quite important remark by somebody who's grown up in Germany as a Jew.

Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and the author of Left is Not Woke.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Susan Neiman discuss how liberals can uphold their universal values while maintaining a politics of empathy and compassion; how the left’s tendency to discount the progress of the past inhibits progress for the future; and whether Germany can serve as a model for how America, and other nations, should deal with the dark aspects of their own history.

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