Mises Daily
Author:
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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[This article was first published in the Fall 2009 issue of The Intercollegiate Review .] It is a cliché that if we do not study the past we are condemned to repeat it. Almost equally certain, however, is that if there are lessons to be learned from an historical episode, the political class will draw all the wrong ones — and often deliberately