Wilfred (Bill) McClay

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Radio Atlantic · American History as Rorschach Test · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm not challenging them.

But I say, do you ever worry about the effect on young people that it has to see everything debunked?

They will say always the same thing.

And it is, that's not my job.

But somebody has to teach that somewhere along the line.

So I don't think we can be indifferent to the effects of a, let's say a 1619 project kind of approach to American history, which I strongly objected to at the time and came out and still do object to.

I mean, it sounds like what you're saying— Too much criticism at the wrong time in the wrong way— Is corrosive.

Yeah, yeah, can be corrosive.

Okay, I want all those qualifiers in there.

I've done some things with Prager, but I don't align myself with that view at all.

I think I would want to talk about it for a while because I think they're not completely wrong.

But I don't think America was founded as a Christian nation.

I will dispute that fervently.

Yeah, but not entirely.

I want to give Howard Zinn credit for one very big thing that he did extremely well, and that is to present history as a story.

He's really very good at telling stories.

I think they're...

Well, they're not the right stories.

They're not told in a nuanced, fair-minded way.

But they're very compelling.

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