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Jack Beaty helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

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Hello me now.

Okay.

It's episode 24 and of course we're going to talk about

President Biden's State of the Union address, but what's your headline for it, Jack?

Still.

Still meaning what?

Well, it's a distinction that Carlos Lazad, a brilliant columnist for the New York Times, is a

brilliant columnist for the New York Times and a reader of political biographies and

speeches.

It's a word that he uses to describe the one word that sort of stands for Joe Biden and

he contrasts still with the word that that is the essential to Trump again.

Here's an example of what he means, his Biden.

We have to show the world that America is still a beacon of life,

of light, I beg your pardon. We have to prove that democracy still works. We are

still in America that believes in honesty, in decency, and justice for all. and good that may be slipping away again, Trump's mantra is about bringing back something

that was rested away. This election is a contest between still and again between the politics of memory and

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