I’ve lost huge amounts of respect for academic historians over the last fifteen years, with superficial and cringe essays like this. Elite historians are increasingly just MSNBC pundits with phd’s. politico.com/news/magazine/…
I remember under Obama how ‘top’ historians just loved him, and ignored his policy choices. Under Trump they mostly followed the same obnoxious groupthink.
Like all progressive institutions, the university system is in crisis. And academics should expect political attacks because they are upholding an increasingly illegitimate order.
The only somewhat interesting essay here is that of Andrew Bacevich, who seems to understand that it is the late 19th century progressive institutions that formed modern America that are collapsing. politico.com/news/magazine/…
As @samhaselby there’s literally zero here about commerce. It’s all cultural and political assessments. How can anyone do history that way?
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