Abstract

Sometimes history is a Morse function. Inflection points arrive, unanticipated, and in the blink of an eye, the present reality and our expectations for the future are redefined. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the World Trade Center attacks in 2001—all occupied mere seconds, minutes, or, at most, a few days; each changed the trajectory of history.

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