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Many have wondered, as I have, why we study history. For a long time, I only really did it for fun, only in the last few years beginning to realise that it can do more. Seeing the past puts present-day problems in perspective. It can give clues as to what may happen next, but one…
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As Vladimir Lenin didn’t say, “There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.” In his book The Quiet Before (2022), the journalist and writer Gal Beckerman makes the case that revolutionary political and cultural movements have often been “incubated” by a period of quiet discussion beforehand: People don’t just cut…
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