Whiggism not only confronts revisionism as such, but what one might call Critical Whiggism, a Whiggism which sees the handwriting on the wall, so to speak.
David Reich is a great example, Whiggishly intramurally slamming Whig anti colonialists, Cohn, Dirks, and their mainstream Whig anthropology.
Michael Lewis is a revisionist, implicating multiple disciplines, economics, investing, banking, sports economics, psychology, physiology, sociology, history, mathematics, philosophy.
Authors on VENONA and Soviet penetration, great revisionist examples, government and media penetration at the top, not just spies stealing docs.
Whig higher education and politics, revisionists slamming Whig political correctness, the Amherst Common Language Guide, the Pope even coming out as a revisionist traditionalist against such Whig pop postmodern nonsense.
Steingart, for a time, ditto, slamming the LIEO that has submerged the West.
Even someone like Beschloss critical on FDR, Whiggish but critical I think, cat-like instincts for danger ahead.
Butterfield, Clark, Ward-Perkins, Andrew, and Schroeder, etc.
Richard Elliott Friedman, biblical scholarship; The Bible Unearthed, revisionist archaeology.
Kennan, Ferguson.
Pillsbury. Even Trump, clearly a revisionist, right or wrong.
My personal favorite revisionist topic, the Earl of Oxford Shakespeare authorship. It turns out he was on the Queen's private, and secret, payroll for a long time, not merely holding known offices, but also also unknown commissions.
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