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‘A duty to be curious’
Kurt Shillinger
Managing Editor
The world is busy building walls these days. Walls to keep people in, walls to keep people out. The emphasis is on separation, division, competition. In a word, conflict. Perhaps, though, the walls are not so much physical as mental. “I think no matter how you feel about where we are today,” the London-based writer and historian Rachel Cockerell says in an interview with us, “we have a duty to be curious about how we got here and where this all started.” Through listening and empathy, the walls come down.
