I’m fascinated with time—its past, its present, its future, its moments, its transcendences. Time, as we’ve all experienced, moves quickly at points, and agonizingly slow at other points. There is something quite mystical about the nature of time and something truly mystical in the relationship of time to eternity.
A few months ago, the history student honorary at Hillsdale College asked me (along with two other faculty members) to speak on the question, why study history. Given…