lot of clout-chasing academics -- many of them tenured and scabbing in the $50-an-essay world -- are dusting off those take sticks and preparing to churn out some thumbsucking just-so stories about the 1968 DNC for one of the "left" or "right"-wing take mills
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even though i'm a historian, you won't hear me arguing from (bad) historical analogy very much. regardless of my "Politics," whatever said Politics might be (the Work!), i don't regard the past as a grab-bag of whiggish precedents that can heat up my takes. that's hack stuffpic.twitter.com/jSJBzpLFSQ
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Sort of don’t get what the point of history is then.
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the point of history is to write a 150 page book a la Butterfield, Bloch, Carr, et al. about what the point of history is
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