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Senior editor Julia Yost joins R. R. Reno to talk about her article from the October 2021 issue, “By Our Wounds We Are Healed.” She sketches out the trajectory of the trauma discourse that now haunts our politics, which finds its ultimate expression in Bessel van der Kolk's bestselling book, The Body Keeps the Score.

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