Web Letters: On the Genealogy of Morals

By Samuel Moyn

This article appeared in the April 16, 2007 edition of The Nation.

March 29, 2007

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  • As I've been told long ago, writing history should not be about one's subjective views but about what really happend in it's truest form.

    If we continue to politicize how and what we write regarding our history, our descendants will write off the 21st century as irrelevant.

    A. Cook

    Dunwoody, GA

    03/31/2007 @ 11:32pm


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