re: re: Shrinking From Afar

Butler and Karen, it’s even worse than what you describe.  Court historians like Doris Kearns-Goodwin pretend to psycho-analyze historical figures like Abe Lincoln, FDR, and myriad other tyrants and monsters (always concluding that they had nothing but saintly intentions).  They’ve invented an entire very dubious “academic” discipline called “psychohistory.”

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2:14 pm on December 15, 2010