English majors seem to be pretty darn low on the intellectual food chain it seems to me, and maybe to you!
Let's compare them with, say, economists!
Let's start low, like quintessential American low capitalism itself.....
Let's start with economists, and there are some highly respected ones, who espouse The Pax Mongolica as a high ideal for global trade in world history.
In Jake's English major history, enslaved negroes are the enlightened heroes, whereas for the Asian studies economists, it is the gentle trade friendly enlightened Mongols who take the prize!
This post is dedicated to David Reich, who is all over social scientists in other disciplines, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, history, biblical studies, theology, English, area studies, and the humanities generally, who have mostly all, so far, failed and refused to see the handwriting on the wall of the results of comparative genome population research, both prehistory, ancient history, and recent natural selection and otherwise hard scientific evidence.
In Jake's English major history, enslaved negroes are the enlightened heroes, whereas for the Asian studies economists, it is the gentle trade friendly enlightened Mongols who take the prize!
This post is dedicated to David Reich, who is all over social scientists in other disciplines, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, history, biblical studies, theology, English, area studies, and the humanities generally, who have mostly all, so far, failed and refused to see the handwriting on the wall of the results of comparative genome population research, both prehistory, ancient history, and recent natural selection and otherwise hard scientific evidence.
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