9. A few examples. Hofstadter: social darwinism was philosophy of plutocrats. Robert Bannister: there really no coherent philosophy & many political traditions selectively used Darwin.
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you like the guy , thanks for the lesson
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Any recommendations to counter his anti-intellectualism book?
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He was the first *serious* historian a generation read — high school in the 60s. Became a prism for the future.
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It’s really depressing. Also, reflexts ignorance of broader world trends both economic and political
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It would perhaps be lazy to make a comp between the intellectual elites of Weimar Germany and the people you’re talking about, but it’s right there, so.
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Damn near impossible to do a history of consensus history WITHOUT using the works of Hofstadter, Niebuhr, or Trilling - right or wrong is not the point - these guys were public intellectuals engaged in a form of social criticism at a unique moment in our history. This insistance
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historical work providing demonstrable, quantifiable, "fact," killing academic history and has made the work of professional historians nearly useless at a time when our public discourse has utterly lost its contextual moorings.
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See: the Vietnam War.
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Is "elite consensus" when less are more or more are less?pic.twitter.com/o794fZuUcC
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