A Return to Proper History
"Too often academic treatises these days are insufferably 'woke' or even unreadable, thanks to their postmodern jargon," explains the author of this refreshingly countercultural work. "This book, by contrast, consists of old-fashioned, meat-and-potatoes history." After lecturing on European history at UC Berkeley and Penn, Professor Walter McDougall is clearly exasperated at the way his craft has been wrecked by what he lists as "postmodernism, deconstructionism, critical race theory, radical f…

