A vivid illustration of contemporary academic subjectivism was provided in 1995, when it was revealed that professor Christina Jeffrey, then serving as historian for the House of Representatives, had argued that a course on the Holocaust ought to include "the Nazi point of view." Jeffrey, who was fired by then-speaker Newt Gingrich when the controversy arose, was evidently well-attuned to fashionable academic belief, which holds that history (as well as science and other fields) cannot be objective and that historians should therefore allot equal respect to all points of view in their accounts.