Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula, by Wilfred Reilly
https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Liberal-Teacher-Told/dp/0063265974
A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula.
In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books.
But in the decades that followed, false leftist narratives—as wrong as those they supplanted—have come to dominate American academia and education. Now, in the same spirit but updated for 2024, Wilfred Reilly demolishes the scholastic myths propagated by the left, uncovers fresh angles on “established” events, and turns what we think we know about history upside down. Among the popular lies he debunks:
“The ‘Red Scare’ was a moral panic that caught no commies”
“Native Americans were peaceful people who spent all day dancing”
“European colonialism was—empirically—a no-good, terrible, very bad thing”
“The racist ‘Southern Strategy’ turned the South Republican”
“The Vietnam War was unpopular and pointless”
Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me sets the record straight on many of these myths, explaining that there actually were communists in Hollywood; that many Native American tribes were cannibals, owned slaves and made them march the Trail of Tears with them; and that history, while almost always bad for Black Americans, was much worse for all of us than we tend to think it was.
Smart, irreverent, and deeply researched, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me will revolutionize your understanding of history and reveal a new and refreshing way to teach and think about the past.
And this is a relatively simple night, because we’re missing two of the three kids. Lol.
I did a quick hit on Richard Syrette yesterday. Gotta keep Canadians apprised of the U.S. madness.
Zelensky trying to block, EU crying, & Lady Lindsay very distraught. Good summary by Alex. Give your thoughts in the replies.Do you think it will happen? Do you think it should happen? https://x.com/AXChristoforou/status/1954118516967145740?t=P-OnJpcZpLtXjji-LU5fbQ&s=19
I start watching at 9 pm eastern on the dot. Can find on Amazon or YouTube Movies, along with some other sites those in the chat often find. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318034/
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTROUDCTION
A. Appearances
B. Art of the Day
C. Wisdom of the Day
D. Cultural Recommendation
II. THE EVIDENCE
A. Daily News of Interest
B. Daily Deep Dive: UBI
C. Cases of Consequence
III. CLOSING ARGUMENT: Ike Farewell Address Government Academia Bureaucratic Complex
I. INTROUDCTION
A. Appearances
B. Art of the Day
C. Wisdom of the Day
D. Cultural Recommendation
Appearances
Art of the Day: The Baptism of the Rus, a moment so monumental, they made literary traditions and even films about it. The fresco dons the St. Vladimir Cathedral…in Kiev. Prince Vladimir’s conversion to Orthodox Christianity aligned the eastern Slavs toward the west culturally and away from the east. Guess where they were baptized? In the Denier River in the heart of Ukraine.
Wisdom of the Day: “Both for historical and institutional reasons, the U.S. political system—and, for that matter, much of the U.S. business community—is ill-suited for producing well-designed “grand strategies.” Kevin Phillips.
*Note: A reminder — links are NOT endorsements of the ideas contained therein. The Library is big, and it mostly consists of ideas I do not personally share.
