Know the difference between collective responsibility and collective guilt, with help from Thomas Mann:

I am reminded of the old joke: “Austria’s greatest postwar achievement was convincing the world that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler was German.”

And here in the US we are all equally responsible for Trump and has followers who would do evil.

Excellent. Thanks.

🌻 hope you got my brief compulsory voting answer in the q&a

I think this is probably the most important video on the main channel. And probably second only to the conversation you've had with Prof Gerdes on effective civil discourse (that video really should be promoted more!).

Great video but why didn’t you make it in Russian? Can you do a version in Russian please

Hi! If you follow me on YT you would know I am addressing a western audience exclusively. Western citizens. IF my content were directed at Russians, or Ukrainian for that matter, it would have to change radically. Public intellectual content has to start with audience.

@translatemom russian