What Story Are You Telling Your Kids?
b'"There are a few versions of history you can tell your kids. You can tell them the propaganda version\\u2014the fables, the self-serving myths, the lies that dictators or the jingoists like to traffic in. You can tell them the dark truth version, the almost-nihilist \'People\\u2019s History\' version that is resurgent today\\u2014that everything is bad, was done with evil intention, that all of history is a cover for malevolence and that progress is impossible. Or you can tell them the third version...'