by Henry Oliner | Jan 8, 2021 | History
“Indeed Sartre, like Russell, failed to achieve any kind of coherence and consistency in his views of public policy. No body of doctrine survived him. In the end, again like Russell, he stood for nothing more than a vague desire to belong to the left and the camp of...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 29, 2020 | History
from Rodney Stevens at The WSJ, If You Must Talk About Race, Be Gracious: America is still obsessed with race, and these days people seem to see only strife and injustice. But as the American anthropologist Ruth Benedict once wrote in her journal, “The trouble with...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 20, 2020 | History
From the National Review 65th Anniversary issue, How to Write History ( in the hard copy it was Robert’s Rules pf History) by Andrew Roberts: To try to immerse oneself in the mindset of the long-dead is easily the hardest part of the historian’s craft, and the...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 11, 2020 | History
from Bret Stephens at The New York Times, The 1619 Chronicles: excerpts But ambition can be double-edged. Journalists are, most often, in the business of writing the first rough draft of history, not trying to have the last word on it. We are best when we try to tell...
by Henry Oliner | May 11, 2020 | History
from National Review, 1619 and The Narrative of Despair by Allen Guelzo: I have been a teacher of American history virtually all my life, and if there is one lesson I have learned from all that, it’s to beware of historical explanations that come down to one single...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 1, 2019 | History
from Hotair, Prominent Historians Criticize The NY Times’ 1619 Project As ‘Biased,’ ‘Anti-Historical’ An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project An...
