Reading history sideways
There is a peculiar comfort in reading history sideways — not for the verdict it renders on the present, but for the sense that the present, too, will eventually be read this way: strange, contingent, already receding.
There is a peculiar comfort in reading history sideways — not for the verdict it renders on the present, but for the sense that the present, too, will eventually be read this way: strange, contingent, already receding.