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absinthe48 Wrote: Nov 27, 2012 1:31 PM
Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans in January of 1815, after the war had ended. It had no effect on the course of the war, but it made his name and launched his political career. (And Tennessee is still called the Volunteer State for its citizens' militia that Andy commanded.) Any prediction that we make now about the future will look as outmoded to our descendants as bustles do to the belles of today. But human nature does not change -- I am not a Marxist, one who believes in infinitely malleable human beings -- and we can still have a good sense of what rules of behavior make good societies.
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