The Uses & Abuses of Presentism

by Rob Kaplan 01.17.25

The Uses & Abuses of Presentism By Rob Kaplan   “The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there,” wrote L. P. Hartley in his novel The Go-Between. For good or ill, we cannot literally travel to that foreign country. But if we could, as thoughtful visitors we would presumably endeavor to learn […]

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