History weighs like a nightmare on the living if they are ig

William Faulkner’s dictum that “the past is never dead – it’s not even past” has rarely been more troubling. The conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Taiwan, and many smaller disputes, are based on contested history. So are the West’s culture wars, obsessed with 17th and 18th-century misdeeds and their supposed present-day consequences.

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