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Reasons Heathens

By Paul McLeary

Writing intellectual history is a tricky gig. Too often, ideology and hindsight have blinded writers to the facts on the ground, turning history into little more than a self-serving dialectic. Take any of the competing “isms” that have dragged the humanities into an archipelago of quibbling camps over the past century and a half, and you’ll find more than enough evidence… return to article

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