There is a piece to be written on the pernicious influence Gertrude Himmelfarb has had on how Brooks, Douthat & Co. understand poverty.
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Reading Himmelfarb, you learn about how Burke, Hannah More, etc. thought about poverty -- very different than how poverty actually worked.
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@HeerJeet This is why you wouldn't want an intellectual history of slavery, w/out discussions of how it worked. - Show replies
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