by Henry Oliner | Feb 28, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
From Persuasion at Substack, The Contradictions of American History by Michael Walzer: It’s a mistake to deny the contradictions of our history, but it isn’t easy to live with them. We (some of us, anyway) long for the Founding Fathers as we once saw them: Washington...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 20, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
From the Claremont Review of Books, Cancel the New York Times by Richard Samuelson: (fire walled, highly recommend subscription) The 1619 Project originally asserted that “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was...
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 | Feb 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
From today’s Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley addresses the 1619 Project in A Bid To Review the New York Times’s Bad History. Many of the top historians on America founding find the 1619 Project riddled with gross inaccuracies and ignores the reality that...
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...