Bret Devereaux

"Harvard offers few history courses that principally address the great wars of modern times. Many faculties are prioritizing such subjects as culture, race and ethnicity." Explain the Iraq War to me without culture, race, and ethnicity. Try doing any war without at least two.

I dunno, Max. Not a lot of underwater lesbian basket weaving in this lineup.

Full disclosure: I probably feel the way about political science as Max thinks historians feel about military history. Somewhere out there there's a polysci major whose dream is working at the Brookings Institute, and he suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

"But the world has cause to be grateful that in 1962, JFK read Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August,” about the outbreak of World War I." Every member of government should read Blight, Race and Reconciliation, but I wonder if that's not milhist enough for Hastings.

"This represents a betrayal of the principles of curiosity, rigor and courage that must underpin all worthwhile scholarship" says the guy who demonstrates no knowledge of the last forty years of historiography.