What Are the Stakes?

The book starts with the stakes and what you think the stakes are. We wanted to prime the reader for a different kind of approach to history, a history which is about decisions, controversies and non obvious choices. And so we're not claiming that we're going to take a specific time in history and go deep on that particular intellectual transition rather we're starting out with the present day stakes. There's a claim implicit in the book that historical view is the is a useful view to all of us who are thinking about our present day.