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Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story. Niall Ferguson

Would Only Divorced Gets Story England Professor

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution. Niall Ferguson

First Anglican Struggled Feel Institution Comfortable Came Oxford Public

We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right. Niall Ferguson

It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all. Niall Ferguson

People Difficult Saving About Retirement House Educate Surprising End Up Debts So Many People Them Your Many Things Buying Difficult Things

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround. Nick Turse

Good Hurdles Military Latin Latin America Out Response Remarkably Obstruction Doing America Trying Afghanistan Short Africa Whether Uniform Figure Old-Fashioned

The DoD has never undergone an audit. In 2004, it actually pledged to undergo a full audit by 2007, but that deadline came and went, and then they moved it to 2016. No one, not even the DoD, thinks they'll actually be able to pass it in 2016. Nick Turse

Pledged Able Never No-One Undergo Undergone Deadline Pass Audit Came Moved Then Full Even Actually Thinks

The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other things, they established a long-standing pattern of dealing with foreign policy problems through armed interventions and also inspired the iconic phrase 'the shores of Tripoli' in the Marine Corps hymn. Nick Turse

Problems Marine Corps Fighting Other Corps States Battles Has-Been Phrase Hymn Inspired Through Long-Standing Since Days Armed Also Policy Dealing Foreign Foreign Policy Been Pirates Shores Established African Formative Republic Pattern Iconic United United States Among Things Early Early Days Marine

U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place. Nick Turse

Government Failure First Taxpayer Despite Address Guinea Gulf Corrupt Tens Tens Of Millions Leaders Combat Failures Concerns First Place Enable Dollars Effectively Piracy African Place Confront Agency Who Many Millions

The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not. Nick Turse

Active Pledged Libya Boots Would Somalia Taken Put Countries Missions Forces South Role African Where Central Republic Sent Ground Special Wars Even Sudan

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact. Nick Turse

Truth You Stream Wait Digital Distract Half President President Bush Promoted Constant Fact David Pushed Misleading Head Until Accepted Truths Decades Just Fictions Information Disinformation Avatar Bush Your Need

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road. Nick Turse

Goals Achieve Seen Understanding Down Military Consequences Presidency Increasingly Obama Exactly Tactical Troops Attempt Road Missions Forces Operations Tight Doing American Where Deployed Little Might Used Special Down The Road Strategic Elite Kept

Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11. Nick Turse

Result Remember Will Unforeseen Consequences Secret Tendency Support New Disastrous Well Forces Islamic Nasty End End Result Soviet Soviet Union Afghanistan New Yorkers Against Produce Unintended Union

Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe. Norman Davies

Justice Law Most Europe Gang Vindictive

The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option. Norman Davies

Path Still Option Anyone Avalanche Certainly Standing

Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. Norman Davies

Post-War Winners Remembrance Get Stakes Standing Wars Start

I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit. Norman Davies

Faith Army Women Men First Hunger Admire Admired Spirit General More Gives He Feel Abuse Him Still His Years Years Ago Heard Women And Children Than Disease Official Human Children Endurance Story Then Fortitude Rescued Special Human Spirit Whom Bond

Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off. Norman Davies

People Live Absolutely Simplified Off Create Necessary Images

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. Norman Davies

Reality Job Myth Myths Between Historian Difference Show Ridicule

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