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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.
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Ferguson and D'Souza do not belong in the same sentence. Ferguson may be sloppy and lazy in some texts, but he's still respectable. D'Souza is an Anne Coulter. He's dealing in fiction and lurid advocacy.
