Jill Lepore on Why We Should Amend the U.S. Constitution
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Like who told these people that it was you could just say, I don't want to read that because I find it painful? Because if that's how you feel, then you can't read history. History is full of pain. People suffer. Literature is full of pain.
Philosophy is full of pain. The human experience is full of pain and suffering and injustice. And to gain any capacity to live a good life. You y you have to confront pain, injustice, and suffering, and find a way to think about it and reckon with it and remedy it and make amends.
And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. My guest today is one of my favorite American historians. Jill LePau is the David Woods Kemper Professor of American history at Harvard, as well as a professor in the law school there and a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is the author, among others, of the beautiful one volume history of America called These Truths and a new book called We the People, which is thinking about the history of the United States Constitution.
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