Dan Carlin (hardcore History podcast) crashing out hard over Trump.
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I'm tempted to, when I have the time, to get an authoritative book on Alexander the Great and compare it to the podcast, to see how good it actually is.
Nothing against this guy specifically, though he seems to deserve it. I'm just very skeptical of people speaking about a subject they haven't devoted their life to. While this is true for me of any subject I speak, no one is relying on me on information, and rightly so.
Do it, and you'll find that Carlin is not any type of historian.
Read Peter Green's book Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography and you would see how superfiicial Carlin really is.
I wouldn't cite him in a graded paper either. But he tells a good story and does provide where his information comes from. He admits he is a storyteller and not a historian.
As long as people take it with a grain of salt. Though I honestly don't even trust myself to take something with the appropriate amount of salt, because you get influenced by what you consume, even when consciously resisting it.
I mean that's just good advice for anything.
Of course, but dosing the salt is the key.
Historian devoting his life to one subject: some amount of salt.
Historian writing about a great number of subjects: some more salt.
History degree but not spent his life being a historian: more.
Not a historian: more.
Not a historian and a major league kook: yuge amount.