Marc Mulholland is outraged, and rightly so, by a new law in Florida laying down how history is and is not to be taught. He's appealing to scholarly protocols and against the writ of the state in such matters. But there's a sting in the tail of what Marc has to say, or - by change of metaphor - there's an axe being ground:
This seems rather to confirm my long standing concerns regarding the obscurantist uses the mundanities of militantly anti PoMo can be put to...Like anything else, 'anti PoMo' can no doubt appear in exorbitant versions. But the wrong here is an attempt at government interference where it doesn't belong, and not the arguments made by people who are critical of postmodernism. That something can be put to other uses, among them misuses, than those intended by its authors isn't a sufficient argument against it - since more or less anything can be so misused.