EPISODE · May 3, 2026 · 36 MIN
America is Haunted by a History of Willful Ignorance. (Melvin Edwards on "Nuremberg, Mississippi")
from Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke · host Pat Kahnke
America can't plead ignorance — not when the evidence has always been right in front of us. Award-winning author Melvin E. Edwards joins Pat Kahnke to investigate how a nation chooses not to know, and what that moral choice actually costs. Edwards' debut novel Nuremberg, Mississippi asks the question that Nuremberg prosecutors put to Nazi officials: when what you're doing is legal — but legal is causing the deaths of people — did you ever think about just not doing that? From Jim Crow sundown towns to the patterns playing out today in the age of MAGA and Christian nationalism, this conversation draws a straight line from 1965 Mississippi to modern America. Purchase "Nuremberg, Mississippi" here: https://a.co/d/0gUiOpU3
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America can't plead ignorance — not when the evidence has always been right in front of us. Award-winning author Melvin E. Edwards joins Pat Kahnke to investigate how a nation chooses not to know, and what that moral choice actually costs. Edwards' debut novel Nuremberg, Mississippi asks the question that Nuremberg prosecutors put to Nazi officials: when what you're doing is legal — but legal is causing the deaths of people — did you ever think about just not doing that? From Jim Crow sundown towns to the patterns playing out today in the age of MAGA and Christian nationalism, this conversation draws a straight line from 1965 Mississippi to modern America. Purchase "Nuremberg, Mississippi" here: https://a.co/d/0gUiOpU3
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America is Haunted by a History of Willful Ignorance. (Melvin Edwards on "Nuremberg, Mississippi")
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