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  • Sep 30, 2010

    Week of September 27, 2010

    by Cliopatria

    George F. Will

    In 1964, the slogan of the Republican presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater, was"A choice, not an echo." Forty-six years on, the Tea Party is a loud echo of his attempt to reconnect American politics with the tradition of limited government.

    Matt Bai

    One

  • Sep 29, 2010

    Midweek Notes

    by Cliopatria

    History Carnival XCI goes up at Katrina Gulliver's Notes from the Field on Friday 1 October. Use the form to nominate the best in August's and September's history blogging or send them to historycarnival*@*sharonhoward*.*org. History Carnival needs hosts for November and thereafter. If you're interested, email historycarnival*@*sharonhoward*.*org .

    Janet Maslin,"

  • Sep 28, 2010

    And Starring Dr. Strangelove as Joan Baez

    by Cliopatria

    At the website of the American Spectator yesterday, former Bush I appointee Jed Babbin offered this remarkable historical comparison in apparent seriousness:"Obama's 2008 campaign was an anti-war campaign reminiscent of George McGovern's in 1972."(*)

    That would be the George McGovern who in 1970 told the Senate that t
  • Sep 23, 2010

    Thursday's Notes

    by Cliopatria

    Jon Turney reviews Fred Spier's Big History and the Future of Humanity for the THE, 23 September.

    Oliver Herford,"Shelley's social network," TLS, 22 September, reviews Daisy Hay's Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and other tangled lives and Richard Marggraf T

  • Sep 22, 2010

    Mid-20th Century Notes

    by Cliopatria

    Timothy Snyder,"Who's Afraid of Ukranian History?" NYRBlog, 21 September, looks at the struggle to control the narrative.

    Robert O. Paxton,"Occupied Minds," bookforum, June/August, reviews Frederic Spotts's The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation, Laurence Bertrand Dorleac's

  • Sep 22, 2010

    Cordoba: 1010, in the 20:20 of hindsight

    by Cliopatria

    I have had brewing for a while a post about the rhetoric surrounding the proposed Islamic cultural center in New York near the erstwhile site of the World Trade Center.  This takes careful phrasing, because it's absurdly tempting just to give in and call it"The Ground Zero Mosque" so that people will immediately identify what I'm talking about.  This would be wrong because none of the nouns there are true, as UK columnist Charlie Brooker has pointed out in his amazed piece about the way this business is being handled in the British media:

    The "Ground Zero mosque" is a genuine proposal, but it's slightly less provocative than its critics' nickname makes it sound. For one thing, it's not at Ground Zero. Also, it isn't a mosque. Wait, it gets duller.

  • Sep 21, 2010

    Week of September 20, 2010

    by Cliopatria

    Michael Lind

    "Is it a rebellion?" the doomed king of France, Louis XVI, is supposed to have asked in 1789."No, sire," a minister allegedly replied."It is a revolution." The right-wing Tea Party movement in the United States in 2010 is not a revolution. It is a rebellion.

  • Sep 20, 2010

    Things Noted Here & There

    by Cliopatria

    Jerold S. Auerbach,"Victory Lap," CHE, 16 September, is the Wellesley historian's reflections on his last year of teaching.

    Jill Lepore,"His Highness," New Yorker, 27 September, reviews Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life.

    Mary Beth Norton,"