Last month, I speculated that it was up to the heirs of Leon Trotsky to question the woker-than-thou 1619 Project, launched by the propagandists at New York's Times to atone for the days when the society pages were all about members of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (or perhaps to atone for generalized privilege?)
A lengthy Phillip W. Magness essay in a libertarian forum provides additional reasons the principal theses of the project are in error. In general, he finds for the historians, without a single reference to the forces of capitalism heightening the contradictions of feudal social structure.
Brooklyn historian K. C. Johnson, writing in City Journal, observes the general non-involvement of academic historians in the controversy, and raises a dispiriting possibility. "The paper responded dismissively, and the broader reaction among historians suggests that the profession isn’t up to the challenge of defending factual accuracy—at least, not if doing so threatens what many scholars see as the ideological greater good."
How much evidence do you require, dear reader, that higher education has broken faith with the people it is supposed to serve?
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