“History is a doomed enterprise that we happily pursue because of the thrill of the hunt, because exploring the past is such fun, because of the intellectual challenges involved, because a nation needs to know its own history. Or so we historians insist. Because in the end, a nation’s history must be both the guide and the domain not so much of its historians as its citizens.” By way of the always-scintillating Late Adopter, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. contemplates the importance of history to our republic.
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Well, I don’t know if I’d say “scintillating.”
You don’t like scintillating? I think it’s a grand adjective, and no mistake.