The writer Daniel Mendelssohn says that you know our institutions are as fragile as they were. The complaint I would imagine you're gonna get from this is why do we need to feel bad about ourselves? It's just that human nature remains us and within us is this incredible capacity for racism, anti-Semitism and nativist thought rather than understanding there's only us and there's no them.
Roxane Gay joins Kara as guest co-host! They discuss the growing threats of violence following the FBI’s search of Mar-A-Lago and Salman Rushdie's recovery after his on-stage attack. Also, Amazon turns surveillance into reality TV, and Al Franken endorses Liz Cheney. Friend of Pivot Ken Burns discusses his latest work, “The U.S. and the Holocaust.”
You can find Roxane on Twitter at @rgay, and listen to "The Roxane Gay Agenda".
“The U.S. and the Holocaust” premieres September 18th on PBS.
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