Also, less instrumentally: lousy works of history lessen wisdom and humane insight no matter your politics!
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Replying to @CoreyRobin
@CoreyRobin Right--and I'm glad my daughter was reading the kid's version of People's History for 8th grade history. But I think of PsH as1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@CoreyRobin a starter book which, one hopes, leads to better work. I took that to be part of Kazin's point, too. And, yeah, ironically,4 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@CoreyRobin I don't know--obviously, sometimes people enter into criticism in bad faith, and, if you read between the lines, you can see1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@CoreyRobin that. But I would still subject Zinn--or any of us--to "ruthless criticism of all that exists." Maybe a bit kind when there is4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@yeselson@CoreyRobin On all the major stuff (consensus, populism, social darwinism, conspiracies) Hofstadter gave dubious conclusions.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@CoreyRobin I'm more favorable than that. About. 80% wrong on populism, but the 20% right is important. Critical consensus history2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@yeselson@HeerJeet@CoreyRobin But what do you expect? He was reacting to the populism he saw.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@mtomasky @yeselson @CoreyRobin He was reacting to McCarthyism, but he mistook populist rhetoric for actual populism.
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