There are journalists who dabble in history, and historians who dabble in journalism (I am among the former). There are also revolutionaries who make History (while professing to be convinced that History makes them).
I am prompted to proffer these definitional banalities by the state of the world as it is unfolding right now. And I find consolation in the thought that neither the expectations of the revolutionary nor the apparently self-evident indications of a given moment necessarily provide a reliable guide to the future course of events.
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