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Some Theorists of History

I In a letter to a historian friend, the French philosophe Voltaire said, “A plague on details! Posterity neglects them all; it is a pest that destroys many great works.” It is in this spirit that we here at Comment magazine offer the following whirlwind tour of some...

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