Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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I'll Tell You a Bit About the Bridge Over the London Thames
In the 1960s and 70s, there was a lot of money for what we call area studies. But then foundations which funded that decided this was not a good investment. This only began to invest instead in narrower disciplines. And so the United States gets involved, whether it's Vietnam or in the Middle East or in the Arabian Peninsula. Nobody who knows anything about these countries.
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