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Third, and most damning in Mrs. Fiorina’s case, is
a failure to respect
history itself,
a willful refusal to learn from the era she claims as an area of expertise. Rather than invoking the medieval world for its brutality, she might have looked to that epoch for, say, the birth of the university. Or she might have looked to the multiethnic civilization of medieval Spain, hailed by the medievalist María Rosa Menocal for forming a “culture of tolerance” among Muslims, Jews and Christians.