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Does history have lessons for the future? Roman Krznaric looks to the past to discover the rules for radical hope
Answers to the question about the lessons of history generally oscillate between two extremes. One is summed up in the 1905 aphorism of the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The …