Category: wingnut butchery of history
If he weren’t merely fulfilling one of the emptiest of right-wing obligations for seeking the presidency, I’d have to nominate this as about the most objectively ahistorical thing I’
Peter Rodman: Military historians seem to be converging on a consensus that by the end of 1972, the balance of forces in Vietnam had improved considerably, increasing the prospects for South Vietnam鈥
I suppose it’s comforting to see the President continues to know fuck-all about the American war in Vietnam. On Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri, Bush will tell members of the Veterans of Fore
So Dean Barnett is speaking in tongues again: In the 1960s, history called the Baby Boomers. They didn’t answer the phone. Confronted with a generation-defining conflict, the cold war, the Boome
Nearly everything worth saying about this week’s Parents Involved decision has probably already been covered in previous threads (and elsewhere), but I want to highlight one piece of relevant hi
Peter Rodman and William Shawcross had an op-ed in the New York Times on Thursday that was staggeringly mendacious even for neo-conservatives. First, we have the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer defense, which
( . . . for anyone who thought this post title was clever, it was — when Scott first used it back in November . . . My bad!) The laughing-stock of the historical profession is at it again. Berna
“Holy shit” doesn’t quite describe this piece in McKristol’s Quarterly Concern, wherein the author not only fails to spell Thomas Hobbes’ name correctly even once, but al
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