will make current students whom he says had nothing to do with this, that must not sit well with you. >> no, not as a historian because what you do is facilitate the replication of those atrocities in the present in order for history to function as any kind of cautionary device, we have to be willing to confront and learn what happened and to speak openly about the failures of the past. if not, the only thing that you do is aid and abet the recommission of these actions in the present and future. >> good to see you, my friend, thank you for joining me again. he's a staff writer for the new yorker and msnbc contributor and professor at colombia university. vietnam was covid safe in the past but now battling a variant and "velshi "is