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• Afghanistan: The lessons of history.

  7 months ago

  JR Fears in Learning From The Past

  Men and women of the American armed forces are on patrol today in the ancient cities of Kabul, Herat, and throughout Afghanistan. Our soldiers come in the footsteps of so many other armies: the Immortals of the Persian King Cyrus, the Macedonian Phalanx of Alexander the Great, the armies of ... Read More

• Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Empires

  8 months ago

  JR Fears in Learning From The Past

  September 21, 2010 marked the 2501th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon. Of  course, probably every day somewhere in the world people commemorate Marathon by running a 26 mile Marathon race. I wonder how many of them know or care that they are paying tribute to men who fought for freedom so ... Read More

• Why We Refuse to Learn From History

  9 months ago

  JR Fears in Learning From The Past

  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” So George Santayana, Harvard intellectual, whose main contribution to history was to write books no one reads any more. “History is bunk.” So Henry Ford, high school drop-out, whose inventive genius transformed history. Both ... Read More