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Human history in the very long run

It's mostly pretty bad

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Matthew Yglesias
Dec 23, 2021
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Like a lot of people who write about politics, I’ve been interested in history for a long time.

That’s mostly meant the history of relatively recent events in the west — things like Eric Foner’s book on the ideology of the early Republican Party or nationalism and revolution in the 19th century Habsburg Empire. But more recently I’ve been getting intere…

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