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  • Jun 21, 2007

    Historian Knighted

    by Cliopatria

    Christopher Bayly, the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of St Catharine's College, Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, author of several books including the seminal Empire and Information: Intelligence gathering and social communication in India 1780-1870 (1996), is now a Knight Bachelor for
  • Jun 17, 2007

    Against Liberal Internationalism

    by Cliopatria

    What is genuine liberal internationalism? It is neither a naïve idealism that ignores the realities of power nor a crude realism that ignores the power of ideals. ~Michael Lind

    Oh, well, that clears things up nicely. There is a little more substance to it. Lind goes on to say:

    "Enduring international peace is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for liberal democracy. Why? In a world of
  • Jun 15, 2007

    Where's Ralph?

    by Cliopatria

    He is away. This time he gave us no clues as to where he was going until Monday evening. My guesses:
    1. Chronicling the real story behind the blue people of the bluegrass state.
    2. Trying to figure out what the heck is going on in Gaza.
    3. Participating in the US Air Guitar Championships
  • Jun 15, 2007

    Boycott DePaul

    by Cliopatria

    Finkelstein's tenure denial rankles badly those of us determined to keep our visions of activist-scholarship intact in our academic careers. Are we to remain hostage to invested groups turning the screws on the 'controversy-shy' administration? Never. DePaul students and faculty are rallying around to protest and being threatened with expulsions and arrests<
  • Jun 11, 2007

    More Noted Things

    by Cliopatria

    Drake Bennett,"The Revisionist," Boston Globe, 10 June, profiles Drew Gilpin Faust. As a historian, she's taken some risks, but that may not be her style as senior administrator at Harvard. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

    Scott Jaschik,"DePaul Rejects Finkelstein," Inside Higher Ed, 11 June, outlines issues, includi

  • Jun 11, 2007

    When I'm Sixty-Four

    by Cliopatria

    In 1936, readers of The Colophon, a book collectors quarterly, were asked to vote on a list the contemporary American authors who would still be read in 2000. On a scale of 1.000, the results were as follows:
    Sinclair Lewis .332
    Willa Cather .304
    Eugene O'Neill .292
    Edna St. Vincent Millay .205
    Robert Frost .180
    Theodore Dreiser .149
    James Truslow Adams .115
    George Santayana .113
    Stephen Vincent Benet .091
    James Branch Cabell .09
  • Jun 10, 2007

    From Wilson Moses

    by Cliopatria

    David Horowitz begins a video making the rounds on the internet from at least one true premise. There are people in the world who hate the United States, whose religious convictions support that hatred, and who are willing to obliterate the United States and all Western culture, even if that means self-destruction. This is news? So what else is new?

    Bin Laden is not a quarterback; he is nothing more than a psychotic cheer leader. On the way from the De Gau