James Walton

What on earth has happened to Simon Schama: The Romantics and Us reviewed

Have the culture wars driven him away from the values of thoughtful scholarship?

The most striking impression was of a man ill-advisedly throwing in his lot with today’s new orthodoxies: Simon Schama. Credit: BBC/Oxford Films/Eddie Knox 
issue 12 September 2020
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