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340 "Merry Kovid Kwanzaa, Madden the Death Merchant, the Flatbush Remonstrance"

The Fifth Column

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Is There Such a Thing as Objective History?

Gelani cob: Historians don't really believe that thereis such a thing as objective history. Eaue, you can't just say, like, there's no real thing as as objective history, so i'm going to tell you something that isn't true, and i believe it to be true. This line of argument is increasingly amongst the people who are clever enough to bat these things away in a clever way," he says.

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