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Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Social Science, and an adjunct professor of history at the

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The Persistence of Hate In American Politics After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images The historian Joan Wallach Scott started thinking of the judgment of history when the Charlottesville riots took place in 2017. The appearance of a large number of marchers chanting antisemitic slogans (such as “Jews will not replace us”) and displaying Nazi paraphernalia ran counter to her assumption that history had rendered its final judgment on the Nazis. She had thought that N...

Character has done and i think ed rollins has a point. this is something that has to be addressed on the floor of the house. any way, the romney campaign, you have any thoughts on that, joan, since i brought it up with you? >> yes, i do think they need to denounce it on the floor of the house. i don't know who he's referring to, but trent franks, who signed the letter, gomer, he's crazy. it's not, it's easy because she is a little bit kind of a crack pot, i said it, to demonize her, but she's got some company. and i also think this works because the president has muslim family members, stepfam...

The democratic vision that we had help getting into the middle class. my family did. chris' family did. we built roads, educated people. had a commitment to public universities. government created the middle class and now, republicans are acting like if you got there, you did it all by yourself. that's just not true. >> joan, i'm from chicago. the the government did just as much to take away from hard working middle class families as it did to help build roads. >> all i can tell you is i wouldn't have gone to college if i didn't get government loans. i got a full fellowship as well. if these a...