The argument that the American intellectual class loves the country too much, and consistently slants its work product to the right, is insane.
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A boy views the flag known as “The Star Spangled Banner” at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., in 2018.
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Editor’s note: The following is adapted from Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me, by Wilfred Reilly, with permission from Broadside Books.
We often, bizarrely, hear the claim that American history is taught mostly from the political right — and that it presents our nation as bucolic. But, in fact, many of the best-selling social-science books of the past few decades focus on the idea that the “real” history of the United States was a virtually unending bloodbath.
About the Author
Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University and the author, most recently, of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.
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Editor’s note: The following is adapted from Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me, by Wilfred Reilly, with permission from Broadside Books.
We often, bizarrely, hear the claim that American history is taught mostly from the political right — and that it presents our nation as bucolic. But, in fact, many of the best-selling social-science books of the past few decades focus on the idea that the “real” history of the United States was a virtually unending bloodbath.
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About the Author
Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University and the author, most recently, of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.
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