Quinta Jurecic

under administration that is not only aggressively contemptuous of women, but is insistent at rewriting the historical record and overriding the existence of facts.

under administration that is not only aggressively contemptuous of women, but is insistent at rewriting the historical record and overriding the existence of facts.

But I think it is a really useful text that brings together a lot of things that are worth thinking about seriously, as well as the kind of failures of the liberal establishments of universities as well, and how do you kind of hold on to the existence of fact, the existence of the record, the existence of truth, even when institutions that are ostensibly meant to back you against these sort of figures of...

But I think it is a really useful text that brings together a lot of things that are worth thinking about seriously, as well as the kind of failures of the liberal establishments of universities as well, and how do you kind of hold on to the existence of fact, the existence of the record, the existence of truth, even when institutions that are ostensibly meant to back you against these sort of figures of...

aggressive unreality are no longer supporting you and are flawed in their design. So that's one. The second book I would recommend is by the French philosopher Albert Camus, The Rebel. I think a lot of people are probably familiar with Camus' book The Stranger, so he's a sort of figure of absurdist philosophy.

aggressive unreality are no longer supporting you and are flawed in their design. So that's one. The second book I would recommend is by the French philosopher Albert Camus, The Rebel. I think a lot of people are probably familiar with Camus' book The Stranger, so he's a sort of figure of absurdist philosophy.

The Rebel is a book where he really tries to put into practice what his philosophy means. The argument that he's making is essentially that the nature of human existence is to be searching for meaning in a universe that refuses to give you any and that we have to kind of walk on that tightrope.

The Rebel is a book where he really tries to put into practice what his philosophy means. The argument that he's making is essentially that the nature of human existence is to be searching for meaning in a universe that refuses to give you any and that we have to kind of walk on that tightrope.

of wanting things to have meaning and knowing that we won't receive that from any kind of external force. And it's something that I have come back to again and again. The last book that I would recommend is by the historian David Blight, and it's called Race and Reunion. And it's a history of how...

of wanting things to have meaning and knowing that we won't receive that from any kind of external force. And it's something that I have come back to again and again. The last book that I would recommend is by the historian David Blight, and it's called Race and Reunion. And it's a history of how...

Immediately after the Civil War and in the sort of subsequent years, Americans worked through their memories of the war individually and kind of collectively as a polity. The reason that I'm thinking about it right now and I've returned to it in recent days is because it's really about how

Immediately after the Civil War and in the sort of subsequent years, Americans worked through their memories of the war individually and kind of collectively as a polity. The reason that I'm thinking about it right now and I've returned to it in recent days is because it's really about how

Americans struggled to build a multiracial democracy in the years after the Civil War and Reconstruction, and then how that fell apart during the redemption years, and how the memory of the war was rewritten and overridden by white Americans who essentially tried to write Black Americans out of that story. And again, I think in this moment where we are...

Americans struggled to build a multiracial democracy in the years after the Civil War and Reconstruction, and then how that fell apart during the redemption years, and how the memory of the war was rewritten and overridden by white Americans who essentially tried to write Black Americans out of that story. And again, I think in this moment where we are...

thinking and talking a lot about what it means to be American, what the American story means. I've been thinking about this more immediately in context of January 6th, that keeping in mind how these sort of dynamics of memory and politics have worked out in the past is a useful...

thinking and talking a lot about what it means to be American, what the American story means. I've been thinking about this more immediately in context of January 6th, that keeping in mind how these sort of dynamics of memory and politics have worked out in the past is a useful...

reminder that this is not the first time that we've gone through this it doesn't mean that it'll turn out particularly well but I do think that Blight does a really astonishing job in kind of setting out how that worked in the past in a way that at least for me has been comforting is not the right word perhaps but there's something that we can draw on there and knowing that this is not the first time that this has happened Quinta Jurassic thank you very much thanks for having me

reminder that this is not the first time that we've gone through this it doesn't mean that it'll turn out particularly well but I do think that Blight does a really astonishing job in kind of setting out how that worked in the past in a way that at least for me has been comforting is not the right word perhaps but there's something that we can draw on there and knowing that this is not the first time that this has happened Quinta Jurassic thank you very much thanks for having me