HISTORY: The crisis in

An earlier posting described the crisis in Political Science. Paul Simon has sent me information about The Historical Society, which was formed as the result of a similar crisis among historians. The American Historical Association (AHA) was accused of being controlled by leftists imbued with sociological theories. The Historical Society claims to provide, like WAIS, a forum free from unilateral bias. Certainly its leaders cannot be dismissed as conservatives. I wrote a piece on this some time ago: the AHA rejected the charges against it. There was a similar crisis in the Latin American Studies Association, where leftists and rightists were incapable of rational debate. For the situation at Stanford, see the forthcoming post on Romulo Betancourt.

Ronald Hilton - 10/7/01