More Noted Things
Stanley Katz urges the AHA's professional division to revisit its policy of ignoring cases of plagiarism among professional historians. Peter Charles Hoffer and I are two historians who agree with Katz. If fear of litigation is the issue, Hoffer has argued that the AHA could indemnify itself easily enough.
Nathan Glazer,"A Word from our Sponsor," NYT, 20 January, reviews Hugh Wilford's The Mighty Worlitzer: How the CIA Played America.
Finally, Jillian at Sadly, No, 21 January, seeks your help for her project, a book entitled: Conservative Communism: The Collectivist Temptation from Mao Zedong to the Hoover Institute. In the unlikely event that you don't know what that's about, Withywindle, whose conservative bona fides are pretty good, has been reading Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning and concedes that it isn't. Withywindle's full review of Goldberg's book is here.