The digital dark ages.
History doesn’t advance the socialist agenda of the Left. They’re history revisionists, if anything. Their biggest enemy is the truth.
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
Why study something when you can just make it up out of thin air instead?
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.
Why study history, when one can rewrite it through journalism...
History = Racism.
[Well, everything is Racist, but especially history]
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.
Title is a bit confusing. I think they meant to say “History” profession. For a second I thought they meant “oldest” profession.
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.
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.
the last two generations or more have been told over and over again that everything and everyone prior to about 1990 was nothing but evil racists. I’m guessing that most “students” don’t feel that there is anything worthwhile to be learned from evil white racists, so they prefer to just chant their hatred of everything and everyone who is older than themselves.
History is the most important subject
When a cop, judge or authority rewrites history to slap one with a criminal record and people ignore that history making and destroying in action, we/they are doomed
Future archeologists will dig up ghia pet and ball team jerseys to find evidence of primitive culture turning man into apes.
Ping!
Fifty years ago the Ivy League colleges dropped Geography as a discipline. And with it went Historial Geography, Political Geography and the classical physical-political-economic study of regions and nations. Slowly, that crucial element in the study of geography was dropped in other universities. Today most schools that provide courses in Geography are almost entirely devoted to the study of some element of physical geography. Usually something very narrow in scope.
The natural question is why.
But first, how many colleges, universities, and students receive monetary assistance from the taxpayers?
Second question; what percentage of their funding is provided by the tax payers?
To be fair, a degree in history is practically useless — unless you are looking for a profession in teaching.
I was very disappointed in my daughter — who has a degree in biomedical engineering — when she began to seriously date a boy who was pursuing a history degree. I had visions of her supporting his ass. Thankfully, he came to his senses and decided to continue on to law school.
You get what you pay for with degrees. There’s too many graduates out there with worthless pieces of paper and mountains of debt they’ll never be able to pay.
It’s ok, Universities have so corrupted and revised “history”, such that it was unhinged from reality.