In a quick-cut video less than a minute long, Mitch Stephens considers the Trump Administration’s efforts to undo the progress—however incomplete—the United States had made on discrimination, the environment, poverty and encouraging democracy around the world.
“Are we really to forget all we have learned?” the video asks.
Mitchell Stephens, one of the editors of this site, is the author of nine books, including the rise of the image the fall of the word, A History of News, Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World, Beyond News: The Future of Journalism, and The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism. He is a professor emeritus of Journalism at New York University, lives in New York City and spends a lot of time traveling and fiddling with video.
