Mulling on (Max) Müller

And the challenge of using history to do good in the present

For perhaps obvious reasons, I have a fondness for failures.

(What’s life without a little self-love, am I right?)

The person we’re going to talk about today, Friedrich Max Müller, didn’t exactly “fail” in life or society: he had a solid career, bolstered by the sort of classist and colonial opportunities that leave many other promising and inquisitive th…