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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@HeerJeet This is why you wouldn't want an intellectual history of slavery, w/out discussions of how it worked. -
@DaveMazella@HeerJeet or perhaps more like, why you shouldn’t base policy on intellectual history
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I don't think Brooks, Douthat & Co. realize that Hannah More ideas about poor needing moral reform widely contested by poor themselves.
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Imagine relying on an intellectual history of slave south, with no social context. You'd learn that the slaves were happy & grateful.
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