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A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson

The Joe Walker Podcast

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How to Get Young People to Read War and Peace

Young people are distracted from reading by any number of devices. They lose the ability to read war and peace, he says. The more you do it, the erit becomes, because you start to recognize references. And that's sad, because in the great works of literature, that's where the wisdom is. It's why my children are nagged and harried into reading.

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