Podcast Episode 234: Why Don’t Young People Like History?

Young people are terrible at history. This is a pandemic, but the question is why? John Davidson at TheFederalist.com gets it mostly right by suggesting that students don’t want to learn history because it is just the bad stuff. Who cares about awful people? This is true, but then he suggests that we need to learn history…because of the bad stuff. We do need history, and I explain how to fix our historical ignorance problem in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.