jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“In the past, Americans have argued about which facts were more important in their explanatory power or causal emphasis; in the present, we are often reduced to arguing about which facts are even facts. Unmooring our debates from some shared understanding of facts inevitably makes constructive dialogue impossible because there is no shared starting point.”
— Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
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