More from Trying to Understand the World
Another of my essays in French.
More in history
I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking