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A Shared Sorrow: Reckoning with War, Memory, and Greater America w/ Viet Thanh Nguyen

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On this edition of Parallax Views, acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize–winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, author fo the hit novel The Sympathizer, joins us to discuss his powerful new essay in The Nation, “Greater America Has Been Exporting Disunion for Decades.” We explore how U.S. foreign policy—past and present—continues to shape not only global politics but domestic disunion.

Nguyen draws on his recent trip to El Salvador to examine the enduring legacies of U.S.-backed wars, the violence of…

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