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The Americans the World Will Remember
This week, I was thinking about a classroom in Central New York in the early 80s.
I was sitting in the front row of a World History class, learning about Hitler’s ascension to power and the gruesome events it birthed. At the time, it had all only been fifty years in the rearview mirror of our shared story, but to me, it may as well have been an eternity away.
We’d spent the previous weeks reading and talking about the conditions that brought about the slow erosion of a country’s collective morality: targeted propaganda intended to generate panic in the citizenry, a steady stream of fake news…
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