So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
Education and so on. But perhaps our most distinguished scholar, it depends what the meaning of distinguishes commas or hl pj orourke. I always say have sort of grown up with pj. On campus was a National Lampoon i cannot quote them but they all involve drug use ethnic stereotypes or gender relations. When his afforded parents desk chief which was totally cool because they paid him why he wanted to travel to beirut in a tele evangelist retirement village was always kind of mystified. As he moved out rock n roll station to sober reflection he became a correspondent for the sobers magazine in atlanta, the Atlantic Monthly p wrote soberly client finance Campaign Reform and other adult topics he was editing a magazine on finance and investment its online its free its called for megan consequences. if you read eat the rich it will learn more about why countries get rich and why they dont during the whole year of economics and college. Thats why recommend those two books as a christmas gift,
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the thai government says the entire nation is in grief after a former police officer killed at least 38 people in a gun and knife attack at a nursery. he then killed himself and his family following the massacre in nong bua lamphu province in the north east of the country. most of the victims were children. thailand s king is expected to visit the town of utthai sawan. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head is at the scene. and a warning, his report contains some very distressing images. people crying, wailing this is a community now consumed by grief and shock, that children so young had been deliberately killed by a fellow parent. the children were taking a midday nap inside the nursery when the attacker turned up to collect his son, who wasn t there, and then opened fire. translation: it all. went down really fast. he was slashing the knife. he didn t use the gun. he kept slashing in there, it s all by
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