Sunday Firesides: Don’t Hope to Live in Historic Times; Be Historic Yourself
“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void: ‘Nothing in the paper today,’ we sigh.”
The philosopher Paul Valéry made this observation in 1930, and it remains just as true nearly a century later.
It may seem a strange paradox of human nature that while we cognitively and outwardly wish for safety and peace, we simulta…
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