Mitch Daniels Was Right

National Review ^ | July 29, 2013 | National Review

[National Review]

By The Editors

Mitch Daniels, whom some Republicans would like to see president of something more than Purdue University, is under attack because as governor of Indiana he objected to the use of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in public-school curricula. In recently published e-mails, the plainspoken Governor Daniels described Zinn’s work as “anti-American” and “crap,” which, when expressed in sufficiently polite language, is the professional consensus: “a polemicist, not a historian,” says Arthur Schlesinger; his work a “deranged” “fairy tale,” says Harvard’s Oscar Handlin; a man who traded in “every left-wing cliché with which the academy has abetted its sense of election these past several decades,” says Roger Kimball.

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[MustKnowHistory]

I live in Lafayette, IN.

The local paper really came down hard on Daniels. For about one week, this was the lead, front page story every day.

It seems to have finally died down.

[Lou L]

In Indianapolis, it is the same. I get the weekend edition of the Indy Star. It's liberal slant is using the opportunity to slam Daniels every chance they get. I almost believe they feel there's enough blood in the water to pressure him to resign from his new post as university President.

I disagree with that, of course. There's a difference between "supporting academic freedom," and choosing textbooks to support a primary education curriculum.

[GenXteacher]

“a polemicist, not a historian,” says Arthur Schlesinger;”

Pretty bad when a left-wing FDR apologist condemns your work.....