tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post111711199871550538..comments2023-10-06T12:28:48.452-04:00Comments on Spinning Clio: History and PoliticsMarchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09263223781051175207noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-1117636778692539362005-06-01T10:39:00.000-04:002005-06-01T10:39:00.000-04:00Perhaps I'm really being critical of the apparent ...Perhaps I'm really being critical of the apparent absence of proper reflection and stridency of the rhetoric used by historians when it comes to using history to support an ideological argument, particularly in the case of rating the still-not-over Presidency of George W. Bush. Some of the comments in the linked piece don't seem to reflect considered thought and the predetermination of so many historians that Bush's presidency will be a failure before it has even become history calls into question their veracity in the future. If they said all along his presidency would be a failure, what chance that they will change their mind, even if it is warranted?Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09263223781051175207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-1117378229098728022005-05-29T10:50:00.000-04:002005-05-29T10:50:00.000-04:00Well said! Of course you are raising a deeper conc...Well said! Of course you are raising a deeper concern. You are saying, in effect, that our study of history has little or no bearing on our ability to make reasonable critical judgments on the world of the present. If that is the case, then of what benefit [other than personal entertainment] is history?D. B. Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05663484917515894917noreply@blogger.com