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Better Politics Cannot Rest on Bad History
Original: You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History
Liberal Currents has published an essay arguing that movements seeking to build a better politics undermine themselves when they rely on inaccurate or mythologized accounts of history. The piece contends that honest engagement with the past is a precondition for durable political reform, and that bad history breeds bad policy and brittle coalitions.
Why now: Ongoing debates about historical memory and its role in contemporary political movements.
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- You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History · Liberal Currents
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