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What use is history?: One reason to study the past

  • April 12, 2010
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n intelligent engagement with the past is a critical component for a working public sphere. The totalitarian state is free to use its vision of history to impose its ideological orthodoxy, or alternatively, lacking any voice to the contrary, to … Continue reading

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