History & Criticism
Is it possible to write anything approaching an objective or rational history, or are the lines between history and myth or history and fiction just arbitrary, cultural distinctions? Is the rational, critical method of historiography really just a new form of Western imperialism, determined to gain authority and control over the stories of the rest of the world? We need more writers like Windschuttle, because we need more people who are willing to address the great variety of pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and other fashionable nonsense which is produced every year. Windschuttle does an admirable job in connecting the world of ideas with the world of history, politics and human actions. In doing so, he shows just how much ideas really matter, and why it matters that we be responsible for our ideas by engaging in reasonable skepticism and critical thinking.