Unthinkable: David Rieff

Does remembering a past event like the Holocaust immunise us from repeating it in the future? Not necessarily, days former war correspondent David Rieff, who argues that "active forgetting" could be of greater benefit to humankind, especially when the facts of history are in dispute. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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