Can you offer some concrete examples of this within current historical scholarship? Because otherwise you’re doing *the exact thing* you’re accusing academic historians of doing.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1131927845641437186 …
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Especially when Wolf — who’s not an academic historian and wrongly claimed to have discovered something academic historians overlooked — is his only example. In the comments others throw out Jared Diamond — also not a historian.
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Replying to @KevinMKruse @dandrezner
Nancy Maclean's Democracy in Chains is good example. Whether it is representative of broader problem in field is of course a separate question. 1/2
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I agree that is a good example. I know that political scientists have pushed back hard on it. I don’t know if historians have tbh.
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As one of those political scientists who pushed back hard, and who reads a lot of academic history, I can say that the MacLean book was entirely atypical, and was very seriously criticized by real historians - e.g.
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I'm not sure one review, by itself, illustrates serious pushback. Are there others? She's still a premier blurb for new history books from academic presses (e.g. HUP's Republican Reversal)
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Why shouldn't she be a premier blurb for academic books because she wrote a controversial book? Whatever you might say about Democracy in Chains, her books Behind the Mask of Chivalry & Freedom Is Not Enough are absolutely top-notch.
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