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The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

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A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

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I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

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The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.

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If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

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As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

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It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

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Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.

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One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: April 18th, 1964

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