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Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History
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The Modern Bureaucratic State Is a German Idea
I half expected you would say, jean la care, the notion that this deadeningly dull bureaucracy is our sad future. Seems to me that the modern bureaucratic state is really a german idea. The funniest thing ever written about bureaucracy is the sitcom. I was raised on bond. Is james bond a scottish prophet of doom? It's interesting that bond was played by a scottish actor, shon conray. But bond was also conceived of by infleming in a way that, if you read the original novels, implies least a streak of scottishness. i remember explaining this to shon conrey when i met him for the first time
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