Fun read on the tyranny of “enlightenment”
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If anyone wants to learn about the French revolution but doesn't know where to start, Season 3 of the Revolutions podcast is solid.
Mike Duncan is a liberal and nowadays retweets fake research that shows "migrants don't commit more crimes", but he was very fair throughout that podcast which was released in 2014.
Aren't you engaging in the Murray Gellman Amnesia effect here? Why would you trust someone who is a total lunatic to tell you the truth about some other subject?
Read a work of serious history if you want to know about the French Revolution. Even the historians who regard the French Revolution as a positive, don't sugarcoat its wrongs.
Well I'd say he wasn't a total lunatic back when he did this specific series, but setting that aside, he doesn't interject his own opinions.
It's a retelling of events. And I know enough about the French revolution from other sources to know he played it about as straight as possible.