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How Success Breeds a Long String of Failures

How Success Breeds a Long String of Failures
Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix, center) covers his ears during canon fire, in "Napoleon." Aidan Monaghan/Apple
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The new Ridley Scott movie “Napoleon” is good, not great. It at least provides a tantalizing overview of post-revolutionary France about which most Americans today know absolutely nothing. It does put on screen the astounding brutality of old-world forms of warfare and their complete disregard for the human life of the people on the frontlines. So that’s something.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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