What Story Are You Telling Your Kids?
"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...