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And we also might imagine that there are blind spots we have

that only history will reveal.

So we must pray and hope for mercy and grace from posterity.

And we must constantly be performing a searching moral

introspection of which there is none among these people.

We must always be asking, to what extent

are we already the bad guys?

Because if Dostoyevsky could be one, if Dickens could write

in ways that make us cringe, then dear God,

like what might we think about ourselves?

I mean, this is the real kind of,

if you want to talk about moral failings among great authors,

it's like how about you look inward for five freaking seconds.

But no, I mean, they never do this.

Hello, and welcome once again to The Round Table.

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podcast here at The American Mind.

I'm your host, Spencer Klaven, features editor of The American Mind

and associate editor at the Claremont review of books.

And I am joined today by managing editor Seth Barron.

Seth, whenever you and I do a podcast on our own,

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