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• Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
• History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to…
• A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of…
• The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
• History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of…
• Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the…
• Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.
• Disrupt, and you will be saved.
• In antihistory, time is an illusion.
• Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
• Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
• The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of…

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