How often have you heard something or someone dismissively referred to as “history”? In modern popular parlance, this honorable vocable means over with, finished, irrelevant. But American ignorance of history and contempt for its uses is far more dangerous today than Francis Fukuyama’s silly [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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