Confronting Historical Tyranny: Monuments and Memory

"It was Malraux who said that we judge a society by the monuments it puts up. 

So imagine a society that puts up statues to tyrants, to someone who nearly succeeded in tearing an empire apart, who did horrible, inexplicably cruel things, even by the standards of their own time."

Ryan tells us why monuments dedicated to the Confederacy must come down in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.

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