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A rebuttal to: The Dangerous Rise of the Podcast Historians from The Atlantic

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ProfessorMeredith
Sep 13, 2024
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Recently Arash Azizi wrote an article for The Atlantic titled: The Dangerous Rise of the Podcast Historians, which starts off strong. I was nodded along at the subtitle which summarized the article as “If professional scholars don’t engage the public, charlatans and Holocaust deniers certainly will.”

As it turns out, it summarized the article poorly.

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