I've been trying to follow along in the sudden debate about birthright citizenship between lawyers and historians who have been interested and working on this topic for decades and those that have jumped into the fray over the past few months: I'm still eagerly awaiting your take on all these issues!
As it's quite obvious from my framing, I think there is a lot of motivated reasoning going on and I'm extremely wary of arguments made by people who are jumping into a new field on short notice. It sure feels like they are starting with a conclusion and working backwards and not taking careful consideration of evidence, context, practice, history, and scholarship.
I don't think people should be barred in some fashion from participating in new fields, but it worries me that it looks like lots of reconstruction scholars are able to so easily find big issues with this new work and I don't really see much of this new work addressing the criticism.
I'm quite keen to hear your opinion on both the 14th amendment issues, but also the methods and practice issue.
I've been trying to follow along in the sudden debate about birthright citizenship between lawyers and historians who have been interested and working on this topic for decades and those that have jumped into the fray over the past few months: I'm still eagerly awaiting your take on all these issues!
As it's quite obvious from my framing, I think there is a lot of motivated reasoning going on and I'm extremely wary of arguments made by people who are jumping into a new field on short notice. It sure feels like they are starting with a conclusion and working backwards and not taking careful consideration of evidence, context, practice, history, and scholarship.
I don't think people should be barred in some fashion from participating in new fields, but it worries me that it looks like lots of reconstruction scholars are able to so easily find big issues with this new work and I don't really see much of this new work addressing the criticism.
I'm quite keen to hear your opinion on both the 14th amendment issues, but also the methods and practice issue.