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Henry Reichman's avatar

Ha! Perhaps everyone should have the privilege of writing a delicious takedown of Magness like this. Here’s mine from a few years ago: https://academeblog.org/2017/04/11/on-blacklists-harassment-and-outside-funders-a-response-to-phil-magness/

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James Livingston's avatar

Just brilliant. Thanks. As footnotes, you could add Samuel Gompers and Frederick Jackson Turner to your pantheon--old Sam always claimed he was a Marxist, and young Fred cited Achille Loria, another famous Italian Marxist (Gramsci cited him, too) in making the frontier significant in American historiography.

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