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Honesty in History
In many places, history has been replaced by "social studies" -- a
politically correct rendition of current social issues. When there is history,
all too often it is "revisionist" history that looks back through the
past to find things to denounce about America or about Western civilization.
'Useful Idiots' Lenin is supposed to have referred to blind defenders and apologists for the
Soviet Union in the Western democracies as "useful idiots." Yet even
Lenin might have been surprised at how far these useful idiots would carry their
partisanship in later years -- including our own times.
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to History populart!
"The study of history over the past one hundred fifty years has reflected
many of the worst trends in modern philosophy. The faculty of modern departments
of history typically comprises a sampling of these trends, ranging from the good
but honestly mistaken to the out-right enemies of reason. Students should be
aware of developments in both the content and method of academic
history..."
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to Intellectual History popular!
"Intellectual history is generally understood to be that field of study
that combines the 'history of ideas' with 'the study of social history.' Whereas
a social history of World War II might look at the distribution of wealth, union
activity, or the religious make up of the population, an intellectual history of
the same phenomenon might focus on the ideas that led to the rise of Hitler and
Nazism, say, and the originators and promulgators of those ideas..."
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- or, more precisely, history is made by intellectual movements, which are
created by minorities. Who belongs to these minorities? Anyone who is able and
willing actively to concern himself with intellectual issues. Here, it is not
quantity, but quality that counts (the quality - and consistency - of the ideas
one is advocating)."
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--Ayn Rand
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