I think it is rather silly to assume that objective history is possible due to the inherent tendency to think within the confines of your nascent philosophical or social framework. I would simply like to know the political bent of any writer so I know what to expect. Even though I can usually divine the unacknowledged bias, there are practitioners among the neocons and lefty enviruses, for instance, that coat their prognostications in scientific certitude or leave out important observations or facts that may color their conclusions.

Whether the Grand Old Politburo or the Demosocialists, my political demarcations are between collectivists and individualists or interventionists and non-interventionists. Once that marker is established, it is pretty clear that either party disagrees on much of anything.