A True Giant Died Today
From the Tom Woods Letter:
What an odd and most unfortunate coincidence.
Just yesterday I wrote to you about the academic snobs who look down on amateur historians who dare to write works of history without being “trained.”
And trust me, as someone who would know: the difference in “training” between a university-educated historian and you is precisely zero. You are capable of reading, and being discriminating with sources, just as much as any of them are, and there are no secret “techniques” they teach us that separate us from you.
But on to the coincidence: today we lost a great historian, Paul Johnson, whose books taught me so much, and who, while not always right, understood the central drama of the age.
Johnson, who was 94, would be considered an “amateur” historian.
But unlike so many of our official historians, Johnson challenged sacred cows, was enormously prolific, and wrote in a way that kept you engaged rath
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