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Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History

Conversations with Tyler

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What I Like About Tockfield Is That He Uses a Story

Ville: Why has always resonated with me much more than mill, more than hi to i think that's partly an oxford story. As an undergraduate, we were required to read tokville's lencien regime in french in our first term. And vil's story of what had gone wrong in eighteenth century france makes a lot more sense when you read his account of what's gone right in nineteenth century america. That just clicked with me. You see, i'm a philosophical ignoramus. I can't get past first baths with abstract arguments. So it could be john stuart mill or hiek, or burke, or tokevill. Or for

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