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Salman Rushdie Recovers, Republicans vs. the FBI, and Guest Ken Burns

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Are We as Fragile as We Used to Be?

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.

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