What I’m Reading: Jesse Walker, Sloppy History in the New York Times
Here's an old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 7 years ago, in 2017, on the World Wide Web.
Shared Article from Reason.com
Sloppy History in The New York Times
Who was against "government schools"?
Jesse Walker @ reason.com
Katherine Stewart has an op-ed in today’s New York Times that purports to expose the sordid history of the phrase “government schools.” The “attacks on ‘government schools,'” she claims, “have a much older, darker heritage. They have their roots in American slavery, Jim Crow-era segregation, anti-Catholic sentiment and a particular form of Christian fundamentalism.”
How reliable a historian is Stewart? Not very. Take this passage, for just one example . . .
— Jesse Walker, Sloppy History in the New York Times
Reason Hit & Run, 31 July 2017
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