It is endlessly ironic how, in their quest to stamp out bigotry, the contemporary liberal mind becomes the most chauvinistic of bigots, both unwilling and unable to extend its imagination to try to inhabit, even for a moment, the worlds of those it professes to study and explain.
I’m confident these “critical theories” on History(tm) will fall into the trash heaps along with all the other illiberal anti-academic “research” the universities try and pass off as humanities. So much good work is being done with archaeology and historical revisionism to elucidate ancient man’s place in civilization. History as a science should be looked at with skepticism at best and challenged whenever possible. Thanks for doing the work dispelling these phony narratives meant to suck all the wonder and fascination out of our stories and legends. Cheers mate!
Much appreciated. I am always disappointed when a serious publisher allows books like these to be published as straight history, when clearly this is more political or polemical, equivalent to Critical Theory in English Lit. I think it is down to the sharp, non-specialist critic/reader to speak out and not be worried about appearing ignorant for making obvious and necessary points. At least, that is what I hope I am doing.
It is endlessly ironic how, in their quest to stamp out bigotry, the contemporary liberal mind becomes the most chauvinistic of bigots, both unwilling and unable to extend its imagination to try to inhabit, even for a moment, the worlds of those it professes to study and explain.
I’m confident these “critical theories” on History(tm) will fall into the trash heaps along with all the other illiberal anti-academic “research” the universities try and pass off as humanities. So much good work is being done with archaeology and historical revisionism to elucidate ancient man’s place in civilization. History as a science should be looked at with skepticism at best and challenged whenever possible. Thanks for doing the work dispelling these phony narratives meant to suck all the wonder and fascination out of our stories and legends. Cheers mate!
Much appreciated. I am always disappointed when a serious publisher allows books like these to be published as straight history, when clearly this is more political or polemical, equivalent to Critical Theory in English Lit. I think it is down to the sharp, non-specialist critic/reader to speak out and not be worried about appearing ignorant for making obvious and necessary points. At least, that is what I hope I am doing.