Otto von Bismarck: Not socialist.
Forget all this nonsense about socialized health care. The first head of state to propose a national health system was at the other end of the political spectrum. His name: Otto von Bismarck.
The system established by…
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History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
— Winston Churchill
In fact, he wrote 74 books. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney may wind up writing a couple themselves, but the president and the vice…
Today’s exercise, class, is to imagine how historians 50 years hence will summarize George W. Bush’s presidency.
This is a high school survey class — we’re assuming there will still be such a thing as high school in 50 years — so…
