Every Page Looks the Same

We are all appropriately wearied with the old saw “They who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it.” Most of us tend to shrug off the adage as an innocuous relic of the past, born when people were less capable of assessing danger than are the sophisticates of this generation. After all, aren’t we, as Westerners, covered by a mantle of democracy and economic affluence that sta