In today’s academia there are many scholars against scholarship, including historians hostile to history — postmodernists who think the past is merely a social construct reflecting the present’s preoccupations, or power structures, or something. They partake of academia’s preference for a multicultural future of diluted, if not extinguished, nationhood, and they dislike commemorating history made by white men with guns. The IAS engaged a historian who wrote a report clotted with today’s impenetrable academic patois. He says we should not “fetishize space,” and he drapes disparaging quotation marks around the words “hallowed ground.”
Scholars bulldozing history (George Will, Washington Post)
By Humanities Watch|2016-11-02T11:52:13-04:00April 13th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, History, News, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments
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