Why Don’t We Learn From History?
A military historian asks why humanity keeps making the same mistakes, and what history can teach.
B. H. Liddell Hart, the British military historian and strategist, reflects on why people and nations keep repeating the mistakes of the past. Written near the end of his life, these short essays cover war, peace, government, freedom and the uses of history itself.
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Morgan Housel
Why Don’t We Learn From History? shows why people keep screwing up after others before them did the same thing.
Article · May 2017
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