Haven’t been following this but sounds like just as science has Science!™ history now has History!™ to contend with. In a way this is like the (re)privatization* of scholarship. Maybe I can start my own store brands too
* Public, institutional scholarship is fairly younghttps://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1316027396147929090 …
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There’s never actually been a period when institutional scholarship ever operated in the spirit of open, international cooperation it aspires to. Cold War, north-south divide... it’s always been continental drift and political alliances. Maybe give up pretending.
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“University” is a bad word though. Has pretensions to universality that it doesn’t live up to. Maybe “school”
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If you want to fund Ribbonfarm branded Science and History, get in touch. All our scholarship comes with the finest 2x2s included at no extra charge.
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Free sample of Ribbonfarm Historyhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1316054635837181952 …
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You also forgot to mention that there are huge complex of nonprofit “think tanks” who are already bankrolled by a few rich people that regularly publish paper and books on history.
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