Monthly Archives: June 2022

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. – Albert Einstein The visionary is the only true realist. – Federico Fellini Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. … Continue reading →

After “The Vietnam War,” I’ll have to lie low. A lot of people will think I’m a Commie pinko, and a lot of people will think I’m a right-wing nutcase, and that’s sort of the way it goes…I want to … Continue reading →

History is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become. – James Loewen Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who, when their turn comes, will manufacture professors. – Simone Weil … Continue reading →

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don’t care what the facts are.  – George H.W. Bush … Continue reading →

This crap should not be accepted for any credit by the state…a “terrible anti-American academic. – Mitch Daniels, President of Purdue University, on Howard Zinn It’s not an unbiased account. So what? If you look at history from the perspective … Continue reading →

Memory says, “I did that.” Pride replies, “I could not have done that.” Eventually, memory yields. – Frederick Nietzsche For empires, the past is just another overseas territory ripe for reconstruction, even reinvention. – Alfred McCoy Let’s return to our … Continue reading →

No other democratic nation revels so blatantly in such self-deceptive innocence, such self-paralyzing reluctance to confront the night-side of its own history. – Cornell West Why is it that, in a land founded on the secular belief that “all men … Continue reading →

What went before, as told by those who think they know it. – Gary Snyder Everything comes to the reader as interpreted by the historian. Everything is seen through the medium of his personality. The facts of history when they … Continue reading →