Can extremely highly educated, very widely traveled and knowledgeable people be amazingly, obviously, exceptionally, absolutely blind to the lessons of history?
Mark Steyn—who not incidentally lives in the Free State of New Hampshire—explains that, why yes, as a matter of fact they can be.
In fact, there’s an example of one—well respected!—who recently wrote a book which happens to illustrate the point.
Do yourself a favor. Read Mark Steyn at his acerbic best, in the form of a book review.