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  • Dec 14, 2007

    Week of Dec. 10, 2007

    by Cliopatria

  • Editorial in the Independent (UK)

    Who could refute Professor David Cannadine's argument that politicians would benefit from a rigorous study of history? Is it not obvious that our political masters would be far better placed to make the right choices if they knew how disastrously badly their predecessors had chosen? Did not George Santayana succinctly and truthfully point out a century
  • Dec 11, 2007

    American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis

    by Cliopatria

    [From Knopf, the publisher]

    From the prizewinning author of the best-selling Founding Brothers and American Sphinx, a masterly and highly ironic examination of the founding years of our country. The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era

  • Dec 11, 2007

    Cartesian Blogging

    by Cliopatria

    Errol Morris is now answering his reader's comments at Zoom. The first response caught my eye:

    A number of readers have claimed that I am not producing a blog — that I am producing a series of essays. Nomenclature aside, the idea of publishing the responses of readers to a given text (and even to including an author’s responses to those responses) go

  • Dec 11, 2007

    Assessing the GOP Plunge

    by Cliopatria

    Today features two House special elections--one in Ohio, the other in Virginia. Both come in heavily Republican districts; both were caused by deaths of GOP incumbents.

    On paper, both should yield easy Republican victories. Yet the Ohio race, in particular, appears far closer than expected--an article in yesterday's Roll Call pointed out that the cash-starved RNCC has flooded the district with money on behalf of Bob Latta (who wa
  • Dec 10, 2007

    Condemned to .. .

    by Cliopatria

    It's not exactly reassuring to hear White House press secretary Dana Perino confess that, when asked by a reporter, she didn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was.

    Her theory?"It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure."
  • Dec 10, 2007

    Things Noted Here and There

    by Cliopatria

    Jeffrey R. Young,"The Visible Past Project," CHE, 7 December, is a short video about the effort of Purdue's Sorin Matei to create a virtual-reality simulation of ancient Rome by blending databases with digital maps and 3-D models.

    Blake Gopnik,"Buried Treasure," Washington Post, 8 December, r