What if the heir to the Habsburg throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, had not been assassinated in the summer of 1914? Would the world have been spared much of the misery that characterised the first ...
In this New Republic review of an interesting new book by historian Richard Evans, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein provides a good explanation of why counterfactual analysis is often a useful tool ...
The two recent columns by Dr. Baytoram Ramharack have stirred quite a furor and, at least for me, in somewhat unexpected ways. Based on the online comments posted on these two columns, it appears that ...
Napoleon spent a lot of his time in exile on St Helena thinking about how things would have turned out differently if he had won the battle of Waterloo. He fantasised about defeating his enemies and ...
What if the great events in history had turned out differently? How would the world today be changed? Niall Ferguson wonders about this a lot. He's a well-known economic historian at Harvard, and a ...
Even though the public tends to regard academic history as boring and irrelevant, as a seemingly endless train of facts, dates and names, large numbers of people enjoy popular history. Large swaths of ...
History is never merely a record of what happened; it is also haunted by what might have happened otherwise. This is the realm of the counterfactual: thinking about history through "what if" scenarios ...
Here are some things I think I am thinking about. 1) Tariff counterfactuals. The stock market has returned to where it was before the whole tariff fiasco happened. And now I am seeing people say “see, ...
What if the great events in history had turned out differently? How would the world today be changed? Niall Ferguson wonders about this a lot. He's a well-known economic historian at Harvard, and a ...
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