Light blogging this last week because I’ve been in Switzerland. We’ve basically driven across the country, from Geneva to St. Gallen. The proximate reasons for this trip were a lecture I gave at the University of St. Gallen and our annual meeting with my partners in Lucerne.<\/p>\n
Our Swiss partner took us on a boat ride on beautiful Lake Lucerne today to the place where Switzerland was born. He pointed out the area where the William Tell legend occured. William Tell is a Swiss hero on the order of Paul Revere or Patrick Henry in the U.S. After hearing our host retell Tell’s story, I cheekily asked him, “So, how much of that story do you think is true?” He said, “Of course it’s true,” with the kind of smile that belied his assertion. I suggested that it was probably as true as our Paul Revere story<\/a>.<\/p>\n Questioning legends is a much less popular pastime than propogating them. It almost seems unpatriotic to embrace the truth, suggesting that the first casualty of war never really recovers. Nevertheless, questioning the legends a significant part of my upcoming series on the History of Scandal, starting with the Enron Story<\/a>. (I didn’t intend to segue that harshly into self-promotion. Really.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Light blogging this last week because I’ve been in Switzerland. We’ve basically driven across the country, from Geneva to St. Gallen. The proximate reasons for this trip were a lecture I gave at the University of St. Gallen and our annual meeting with my partners in Lucerne. Our Swiss partner took us on a boat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}