“That memory is a species of morality is one of the more unassailable pieties of our age.”
How do we move through the complexity of history in the present day?
On episode 059, Paul Holdengräber is joined by New York-based journalist and author David Rieff for a discussion about the complicated narratives surrounding many historical figures from Gandhi to Churchill, the notion of collective memory, and how this informs the ways in which a society remembers its past.
THE QUARANTINE TAPES: DAVID RIEFF 059
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