The Cognitive Dissidence of the American Liberal Mind

Sally Kohn: It says something interesting about the American liberal mind that when it thinks of Russia, as you say, Russia has turned into a gangster capitalist, kleptomaniac society today precisely because of what the US did in the Cold War and how that ended. I do want to read something from your book and this is the only time I'll read directly from from the text, but I think it's important. In short, the ideological work of American innocence is to remind us of the pure benevolent intentions behind our imperial and genocidal actions while at the same time assigning the most impure and evil motives to the violence of others. And I thought that was