A provocative longread on the ways the left and right are reinterpreting history, from the 1619 Project to Dinesh D'Souza, and how obsession with origins obscures change, tumult, and progress.
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[Essay] History As End, By Matthew Karp | Harper's Magazine
1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
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