The past, famously, is a foreign country. Unfortunately, it often seems that “foreign wars” fought before 1900 are too distant to find their way into our policy analysis. And without understanding the ...

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 ...

In one of his most famous paintings, the artist Paul Gauguin posed three fundamental questions: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” Archaeologists have come up with reasonably ...

Ancient Native American wisdom highlights a crucial difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge gathers facts from the ...

"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." In our era of rapid technological advancement, this adage holds even greater relevance. While voices of innovators from the past may not always ...