…and the educational crisis.
I think that our educational system lies at the heart of all of our other problems. We can’t expect to get good leadership when the people who vote for them are so ill informed.
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On one hand, most Americans do not care about the history of their own cities, much less other countries.
On the other hand, among the minority who read for pleasure, history, biography and historical fiction are perennially popular.
I am not sure what to make of this.
I don’t know how successful they are but they produce a lot of books, https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/
Thanks. “A History of Connecticut Wine” and “Hiking Lake Tahoe” look interesting.
Our woefully inadequate elites (from which the “leadership” we are saddled with is drawn) are a both the causes and the products of that educational system.
I thought by “history taught backwards” it’d be 1) find the narrative you want to spin, and 2) shoehorn history to fit that narrative. That just makes sense, right?