5 Thoughts On "The People Speak" on The History Channel
5. This format is awesome. How anyone could be bored with history hearing the voices of important figures is anyone's guess.
4. We need to face up to our national history, our failures (especially) with respect to black Americans, women, and Native Americans with a special courage, even if it isn't the whole story.
3. Huge failure of the presentation: No discussion of the means to acquire "justice": whether the advocated means actually achieve those ends, whether the cause (and the means) is always just, and if there is any coherent relation between the demands of the aggrieved, and our mutual continuance in liberty. In other words, is every victim of "oppression" worthy of my support? What are the goods in tension? Do you assume that your earnestness vindicates your political program automatically?
2. This history of the country is every leftist hero that they could find, read by every leftist entertainer they could find. What's going on here? Oh, Howard Zinn produced this; that explains its enjoyable yet annoyingly revisionist character. I wonder if you could suck up to Eugene V. Debs any more? Yes, that Eugene V. Debs.
1. Even though they are worshipped by leftists, I had a hard time disagreeing with Langston Hughes, Sojourner Truth, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X (surprised me) and even John Brown in their pro-liberty/anti-war sentiments.
5. This format is awesome. How anyone could be bored with history hearing the voices of important figures is anyone's guess.
4. We need to face up to our national history, our failures (especially) with respect to black Americans, women, and Native Americans with a special courage, even if it isn't the whole story.
3. Huge failure of the presentation: No discussion of the means to acquire "justice": whether the advocated means actually achieve those ends, whether the cause (and the means) is always just, and if there is any coherent relation between the demands of the aggrieved, and our mutual continuance in liberty. In other words, is every victim of "oppression" worthy of my support? What are the goods in tension? Do you assume that your earnestness vindicates your political program automatically?
2. This history of the country is every leftist hero that they could find, read by every leftist entertainer they could find. What's going on here? Oh, Howard Zinn produced this; that explains its enjoyable yet annoyingly revisionist character. I wonder if you could suck up to Eugene V. Debs any more? Yes, that Eugene V. Debs.
1. Even though they are worshipped by leftists, I had a hard time disagreeing with Langston Hughes, Sojourner Truth, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X (surprised me) and even John Brown in their pro-liberty/anti-war sentiments.
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