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Apr 16, 2023 13 tweets 3 min read
so someone (honestly don't know who - just a reader, I guess) sent me this from the Sunday Times. i'm unfamiliar with this guy's column but it seems a bunch of random musings, including -1st & foremost - a quote from Tony Judt about "history as facts" 1/

thetimes.co.uk/article/aaea08… this is the key bit from the Times column, claiming that historians are now abandoning the "stuff" of history - facts - in favor of editorializing about how bad people were in the past. Image
Apr 14, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
On the one hand the right is banning books and firing teachers, on the other the left yelled at a racist who still got paid to give a talk FIRE is a right-wing organization that shames its own lawyers who do good work