Almanac: Leszek Kołakowski on politicians who read history
"Those few politicians of the last decades who were more intimate with the historical past"like de Gaulle and Churchill"were not protected against blunders; but if their influence was more profound and longer lasting, this was perhaps due to their sturdy awareness of living within, and being limited by, a continuous historical stream." Leszek KoÅ‚akowski, "The […]