Day: March 1, 2008

Steynianism 68.0

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Alexander Of Arabia?

History embodies countless ‘What-If?’ moments. It’s a tribute to the power of individuals and circumstances that our choices can make and unmake and change worlds and people and situations yet to be. It’s also a comment on the imaginations of historians that we like to idly speculate on possible worlds. Call it mostly harmless academic chewing-gum for the mind.

Now, without wandering onto topics better considered by people like contemporary scholar Victor Davis Hanson, there’s a ‘What-If?’ of the classical world that I’d like to briefly consider.

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