This is far and away the smartest & most honest conservative response to the 1619 project. I hope we see more like this.https://twitter.com/philipaklein/status/1163853616370860032 …
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I know you're not responding to me here, but tried to do exactly what you say in discussing the challenge of writing about historical scholarship in journalism.
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such an arbitrary recent cutoff makes me suspect these very recent works chosen precisely because they did *not* absorb any wisdom happening to be in older ones, tho they may have absorbed the critiques of the older ones.
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Honestly, I journalists far too often rely on the supposed wisdom of dated scholarship (Hofstadter on the populists say) in a way that is harmful. When dealing with cumulative disciplines, it's really best to start with up-to-date work.
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