Should have listened to his mom, who is (per @HeerJeet) "a brilliant historian." Historians don't make predictions.https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/630336422852096000 …
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Replying to @LDBurnett
@LDBurnett I think we need to have a chat with@HeerJeet about what constitutes a "brilliant historian"1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @_John_Handel
@_John_Handel@LDBurnett Himmelfarb's "Darwin & the Darwinian Revolution" is great, as are some of her other works.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@_John_Handel@LDBurnett "Roads to Modernity" is rubbish. British Enlightenment was *not* non-ideological, common sense.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @BrentSirota
@BrentSirota@_John_Handel@LDBurnett That's not one of her stronger works. In general her more ideological neo-con stuff is poor.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@BrentSirota@_John_Handel@LDBurnett But that’s most of it.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @robmickey
@robmickey@BrentSirota@_John_Handel@LDBurnett No: until mid-1970s she was solidly Cold War liberal, like Trilling or Hofstadter.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@BrentSirota@_John_Handel@LDBurnett Her most-cited works aren’t the “cold war liberal” stuff: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=Gertrude+himmelfarb&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C23 …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @robmickey
@robmickey@BrentSirota@_John_Handel@LDBurnett The Darwin book is pre-neo-con -- and it's a genuinely good book.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@BrentSirota@_John_Handel@LDBurnett OK. To the larger point: do smarter people have dumber kids? Yes, they do. Ask my parents.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@robmickey @BrentSirota @_John_Handel @LDBurnett Oh yeah, "reversion to the mean" as the geneticists say. Bill Kristol great example.
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