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In history, as in romance, beginnings matter – so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the futureIn these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the former director of the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, proposes in a new book? Is this bringing us towards the brink of a third world war, as the historian Niall Ferguson has argued? Or, as I have found myself suggesting on occasion, is the...
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University Leaders are Teaching Us How Holocausts Happen
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Letter: What Little League can teach us about politics
I remember when I was young, playing Little League baseball, and our team would lose the game. Our coach told us, “Don’t worry guys, we’ll get ‘em next time. Some games you win, some games you lose.” But there was one kid who couldn’t handle losing. He would cry and claim that we had been cheated out of a victory, that the umpire favored the other team. But then, when we won the next game, he celebrated along with the rest of us. This game we won fair and square.