THE HISTORICAL PROFESSION IS COMMITTING SLOW-MOTION SUICIDE

War on the Rocks ^ | December 10, 2018 | HAL BRANDS AND FRANCIS J. GAVIN

[mindburglar]

The digital dark ages.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Thought you were talking’ bout the NFL.

[Telepathic Intruder]

History doesn’t advance the socialist agenda of the Left. They’re history revisionists, if anything. Their biggest enemy is the truth.

[Bullish]

Well said and so true.

[PIF]

I believe that the truism goes: “those that forget their history, are doomed to repeat it.”

one more nail being pounded into the coffin of American culture

[noiseman]

Why study something when you can just make it up out of thin air instead?

[wastoute]

Exactly. History is only worth learning when it ain’t changing every few years.

[antidisestablishment]

The decline and fall of history is the history of the academic institutions that fostered it. Is it truly remarkable that the sixties marked the beginning of the end?

Despite the unparalleled volume of the postmodern meta-cognitive theorists, the humanities have become little more than gauche displays of insipid narcissism. There is no weight of history; there is no proof; there is only the consensus of fools. Having lost the center, they have turned to themselves as the arbiters of truth and no longer even the possess the capacity to blush at their hubris.

The current chorus is clear: History? We don’t need no stinkin’ history. There are none before us who matter, and those who follow even less.

[teeman8r]

Why study history, when one can rewrite it through journalism...

[rbg81]

History = Racism.

[Well, everything is Racist, but especially history]

[melsec]

Says a lot about young people’s inability to know the signs of the times.

[Skooz]

Having a history degree, I find this disturbing.

Studying history is the only way to make since of it all. It is also the perfect preventative to liberal talking points.

Ignorance of history leaves one unarmed against the onlsought of media and academic bias.

[Loud Mime]

bump

[familyop]

"Women have moved in disproportionate numbers away from the humanities and towards the social sciences."

So shunting healthy, American men away from education wasn't enough to satisfy the authors. That's too bad.

We'll be better off in the near future, if most of today's academic, political and business bosses know little of unrevised history. Their abundance of pride will be an even greater blessing, may they have more of it.

[MayflowerMadam]

“They’re history revisionists, if anything.”

You can see where “history” is headed when presidential “historians” like Douglas Brinkley and Doris Kerns Goodman spew their leftist activist filth on TV.

[Larry Lucido]

Title is a bit confusing. I think they meant to say “History” profession. For a second I thought they meant “oldest” profession.

[FreedomPoster]

Any article on issues with traditional Liberal Arts in academe that doesn’t address the extreme Leftist tilt caused by Cultural Marxism and Critical Theory is completely intellectually dishonest, completely clueless, or both.

[Tell It Right]

When I was in college my history courses weren't history, they were blame-white-people-for-everything indoctrination courses. And I'm in my late 40's, imagine how much worse it is now.

In previous generations, history courses used to teach how England's spiritual awakening near the height of its empire led to the abolitionist movement, not just for the English homeland but to all it controlled and even to much of the rest of the world that had to deal with England. Today's history courses blame the Anglos for slavery, though the Anglos are most responsible for ridding most of the world of slavery.

[a fool in paradise]

well stated