Recorded October 26, 2017.

The 2017 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture: Sometimes it Matters Who is in Power is delivered by Professor Margaret MacMillan of Oxford University.

How do we weigh the great forces against the individuals in history? Political, economic and social structures, resources, demography, ideas, we know these shape the past. Yet can we dismiss the impact of powerful leaders and thinkers such as Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Karl Marx or Mohammed? This lecture argues that there are crucial junctures where an individual can push history in one direction or another.

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