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Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History

Conversations with Tyler

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Is Kaine Too Much of an Aesthetic Thinker?

I'm a dreadful esthete perhaps of a lower calibre than canes, but have my own bloomsbury. Am never happier than when diverting myself with music or art. The redeeming feature of kanes's life is the heroic effort he made to keep britain from going under in world war too. Empire is the book that you couldn't write to day. If one does a cost benefit analysis of british imperialism, it was a remarkably benign empire compared with other available empires. This is a deeply unfashionable view and makes me a hate figure for the academic left.

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