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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You got me on the first point. That was some rhetorical hyperbole. Your second point, however, proves another of mine. Scholars all have bias. So if the last 75 years of history books have been written exclusively by liberals, as GGG would suggest, they may be good books, but they may also be telling us less than the full story. You might be assessing what's great without necessary comparisons.
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GGG did point to some good histories written by conservatives. I agree with him that conservatives are less likely to want to be historians, and that schools really want to have ideological balance and do what they can do hire historians. On the former point, consider people like Dinesh D'Souza and Niall Ferguson who started with strong academic credentials, discovered that it was more lucrative to publish the kind of crap that conservatives buy, and went over to the dark side never to return.
