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The killing of History: why relativism is wrong

30 mins | Apr 23, 2018
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Are anti-colonial re-writings of history motivated by a desire for liberation or by fact? Reviewing Keith Windschuttle’s book, The Killing of History: How a Discipline is Being Murdered By Literary Critics and Social Theorists, Roger Kimball, writing in The New Criterion, warns against the devastating consequences of rendering “Historical truth” obsolete.

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