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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle ask they reflect on Axios CEO Jim VandeHei’s latest op-ed titled “A message to college students,” which suggests that today's college students are being "duped" by a narrative of "impending doom" and a "crisis of hope" promoted by social media and politicians. Barnicle suggests reading about the country’s history, in books written by Rick Atkinson, for example: “You come away stunned—stunned at what the United States of America meant to the world and still means to the world. It's amazing to read histories like this of who we are, the fiber, the spine of what it means to be an American and that still exists today.”

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The importance of learning history