“Jon Kvanvig is rather mad”:http://bengal-ng.missouri.edu/~kvanvigj/certain_doubts/index.php?p=327#more-327 at some things Donald Kagan said in his Jefferson lecture arguing for (or at least asserting) the preeminence of history in the humanities. I don’t want to get into a war about what the leading humanities department should be (I don’t think it should be philosophy because I don’t think it’s part of the humanities, but never mind that) but I do want to agree with one thing Kagan said.

bq. [S]ome things [are] truer than others.

Truer words were never spoken!