Niall Ferguson, poet-laureate of the American Empire
“Hegel says somewhere that all great historic facts and personages occur twice, so to speak. He forgot to add: “Once as tragedy, and again as farce.” — Opening line to Karl Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1869) The unofficial poet-laureateof the British Empire was Rudyard Kipling. He described its contradictions, wonders, and horrors …
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