Remembering Stephen F. Cohen: Katrina vanden Heuvel on life and love with eminent Russia scholar
Pushback with Aaron Mate
Pushback with Aaron Maté
4.7 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What is your secret to success for a marriage when two people disagree, especially politically, in these days? |
| 0:12.0 | Off camera, she turns to me and says, you know, I know you're right. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, I forgive her for everything she said. I deny. I did not. No, I think it's a shared history. |
| 0:24.6 | I think it's a 27-year-old daughter who's extraordinary clerking for the Ninth Circuit, |
| 0:28.8 | who is a shared bond. In San Diego. And we agree to disagree. And I've learned an enormous |
| 0:35.1 | amount from Steve, and I think he respects |
| 0:37.7 | that I have to run a publication which is you know a big tent. |
| 0:41.9 | There are many different points of view on the decision. |
| 0:43.3 | The inherent conflict really is, is that I wouldn't say she represents a community |
| 0:47.3 | but she's responsible for a very large and important community who complain to Katrina |
| 0:52.8 | about me. Now in the new era of feminism we're not supposed to be hyphenated politically. |
| 0:58.0 | Steve's supposed to have his views. |
| 1:00.0 | But if I say something objectionable, they suddenly Katrina and Steve say this is not true. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean, I think ultimately the fact is we've loved each other for 35 or 40 years. We sleep together. |
| 1:11.6 | And in the end, we know there are more important things. |
| 1:14.6 | But we do feel differently and very strongly about what I think is an unprecedented situation. |
| 1:19.6 | And it's Trump. I mean, Trump's coming to everybody's household. |
| 1:23.6 | Trump has known everyone and opposite. |
| 1:24.6 | You know how many friendships, marriages have been tormented and upended. |
| 1:29.3 | We're keeping ours together. |
| 1:30.3 | We're not going to give in to Trump. |
| 1:32.3 | Well, I don't feel that way. |
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