Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 78, warns us against judging our historical heroes too harshly. Douglas Murray, author of the bestselling The War on the West, joins us to explain our recent appetite for tearing down statues of our heroes, and why seeing the past through the very narrow lens of current ideological convictions is a very bad idea. Does Thomas Jefferson still represent the values of the United States of America? Listen and find out.
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