A User's Guide to History
H. W. BrandsEverybody uses history, some better than others. This User's Guide offers suggestions on how the past shapes the present, and how the present shapes what we think about the past.
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Picking stocks, picking policies
John Maynard Keynes explained that picking winning stocks was harder than it looked. The English economist noted that it didn’t suffice to pick the shares of the best company. One had to pick the shares of the company other investors consid...
2. Distant thunder
The policy of containment implied that the United States might fight communism in regions far from America and with no immediate bearing on American security.
This implication took actual form in 1950. In June of that year, communist force...
Before there were selfies . . .
“A servant presently led in the famous bard Demodocus, whom the muse had dearly loved, but to whom she had given both good and evil, for though she had endowed him with a divine gift of song, she had robbed him of his eyesight,” said Homer...
The afterlife of politicians
In an interview in 1958, Harry Truman remarked, “A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.”
Truman obviously didn’t qualify, being still alive. He wouldn’t die until 1972, which would have made him eligible for the...
42. The cure for democracy’s ills
The 19th century saw the emergence of the two systems of social organization that came to characterize modern America. The first, democracy, was chiefly political and took hold in the first half of the century. The second, capitalism, was p...
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