Rebecca Solnit at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.(Rebecca Sapp / WireImage via Getty Images)
Why did we stop believing that people can change? Don’t we want people who did bad things to understand the damage they caused? Don’t we want them to acknowledge it and make reparations? Bestselling author Rebecca Solnit explains.
Also on this week’s show, historian Eric Foner comments on the ways Republicans have made the teaching of American history a key battleground in their culture war against Democrats in the upcoming elections—especially the history of the American Revolution.
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