Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

… and it’s remarkable — and honestly confusing to visitors from other fields — the extent to which historians resist explicit reasoning about causation and counterfactual analysis even while constantly saying things that clearly implicate these ideas. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 28, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

To Discourse a little on this, I like history, I like reading history books, I like following historians on Twitter, I enjoyed several history classes in college, I think there’s a lot of good stuff going on. But. I took a philosophy of history class once in college… — PolitiTweet.org

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Yes journalism is: (a) Notoriously terrible. Nobody ever says anything good about journalists, journalism, or “the media.” (b) Very methodologically adjacent to history (“the first draft of history…”) — PolitiTweet.org

@mattyglesias Don't journalists do this all the time?

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