Departments

;

Cliopatria

  • Feb 28, 2008

    Decline Scenario

    by Cliopatria

    Chief Cliopat Ralph Luker is away for the next few days. Which gives me the opportunity to recycle!

    In a rather half-hearted piece for TNR, Imperial Illusions, Amartya Sen spends some time ruminating on the good/bad of British colonialism in India with an eye towards comparison with the American imperialism. He offers a sketch of the 2,000 year old pre-history of British rule in India as a" count

  • Feb 28, 2008

    Thursday News

    by Cliopatria

    Rick Perlstein memorializes William F. Buckley:"He did the honor of respecting his ideological adversaries, without covering up the adversarial nature of the relationship in false bonhommie. A remarkable quality, all too rare in an era of the false fetishization of 'post-partisanship' and Broderism and go-along-to-get-along. He was friends with those he fought. He fought with friends. These are the highest
  • Feb 28, 2008

    A History of Evil

    by Cliopatria


    This animated documentary-mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from ancient Greece to the present is a student project by Ole-Magnus Saxegard.
  • Feb 27, 2008

    Taylor, Wilentz, and Race

    by Cliopatria

    In this week’s National Journal, Stuart Taylor (who has published several columns sympathetic to Barack Obama) expresses his hope that a President Obama would move the country beyond the idea of racial preferences, and instead embrace a race-neutral, class-based approach. Taylor’s doubtful—if only because such a move would generate fierce resistance among some in the Democratic Establishment and, of course, many in higher education.

    While this launch is a clear response to

  • Feb 21, 2008

    More Noted Things

    by Cliopatria

    Robin Wilson,"Conservatives Just Aren't Into Academe, Study Finds," CHE, 22 February (free link to non-subscribers), features the empirical research of Matthew Woessner and April Kelly-Woessner. Honest discussion of the scarcity of conservatives in the academy will have to take account of their findings. (Not that one expects honest discussion with David Horowitz, of course.) John Carter Wood,"