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Revisionist History, aka Reality Based History

  • January 29th, 2010
  • Posted in Commentary . Societal

I like the thought-exercise of viewing historical events as if one were a disinterested Martian. When stripped of the rhetoric, oratory and emotional appeals to the psychological hooks by which we’re so easily manipulated, what does an event look like? The resulting narrative–in this case, of the creation of the american revolution and creation of [ READ MORE ]

Goodbye, Howard Zinn

  • January 29th, 2010
  • Posted in Miscellany

Looking back on it now, Howard Zinn had a major impact on my radicalization.  I remember reading The 20th Century, essentially a subsection of The People’s History, on a park bench in Rutland, VT.  I recall my surprise that the progressive political agenda whose return I had hoped for during the Clinton presidency was, in fact, a [ READ MORE ]

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