[conservatism_IS_compassion]

1) A 3-5 page book review of Michael Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Worth 15% of the final grade.

· This review should be written without investigating any other reviews of Bellesiles’ work.

Imagine a sincere liberal skull-full-of-mush following this instruction, going ga-ga over Bellesiles' con, and writing a pean of praise for it!

And then . . .

[Billthedrill]

Imagine a sincere liberal skull-full-of-mush following this instruction, going ga-ga over Bellesiles' con, and writing a pean of praise for it!

And then . . .

Oh, yes. Academia is really, really angry at Bellesiles in its own stodgy way - the problem isn't just the humiliation of having bought into an outright fraud, it's that it will cause the unwashed to look askance at any future pronunciamentos issuing from the "experts." That is not a healthy thing if you are one of those "experts." And this is a very, very subversive course.