History is not self-executing. You do not put a coin in the slot and have history come out. For the past is a chaos of events and personalities into which we cannot penetrate. It is beyond retrieval and it is beyond reconstruction. All historians know this in their souls.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: History and National Stupidity
In memoriam, a link to one of Arthur Schlesinger's last articles for The New York Review of Books:
