Imagine a new generation of young people with a working, practical knowledge of the history of progress…
Alas, imagining is probably the best any of us shall be able to do for at least another generation. Both the academic history establishment and the academic teacher training and certification establishment are leftist totalitrianisms. Both uniformly take the Howard Zinn view that U.S.-style progress has been an unbroken string of disasters and atrocities. This bone-deep hostility to The American Project is doubtless the source of the pervasive and creepy fascination of these people with the marauding bands of homicidally inclined tribal barbarian aborigines that formerly blighted much of North America, as well as the mendacious crock of romantic fiction now peddled as “history” on their behalf. It also explains the equally obvious present-day soft spot the history and teacher training establishments possess for anti-American tribal barbarian psycopaths from other parts of the world. I fear the present generation of academic poseurs and usurpers are going to need to die before things much improve.
