287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

222.842 - 247.298 Sean Carroll

But as a scientist, you also want to be careful and nuanced and empirically based and say, OK, maybe some bad things happened in the past under the name of colonialism or whatever. Were they entirely bad? Or were there aspects that actually were good? Was civilization actually brought? Or was literacy or better roads or something like that to a different part of the world? Well, guess what?