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In the early 1950s, Paris was still learning how to breathe again after the war.
That’s when I met Albert Camus.

Not as a philosopher giving answers, and not as a writer offering hope—but as a man quietly warning about something far more dangerous than tyranny: certainty.

In this episode of Cronkite Archives, I recount a late-night conversation with Camus in a small Paris apartment, where he explained why believing that history has a direction is the first step toward justifying cruelty. He spoke about war, revolution, moral limits, and why killing in the name of ideas ultimately destroys the ideas themselves.

This is not a lecture.
It’s not an explanation of Camus’ books.

It’s a memory — of a man who refused slogans, rejected easy sides, and paid the price for choosing honesty over belonging.

If you’ve ever wondered whether progress is inevitable, whether history really moves “forward,” or whether moral clarity can exist without violence — this conversation is for you.

That’s the way it was.