Friends, I know it's been a quiet month on the blog. What can I say? The news moves at the speed of light these days, and it's difficult for me sometimes to conceptualize anything to add to the frantic online conversations. I wrote up a short article, "The Captivity of Otto Warmbier: Outsiders, Insiders, and…

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30.11.2022

Coats of Arms are bullcrap. We all know this, right? | Historiann

Liberal and left-leaning news orgs are happily publicizing the latest evidence of the dishonesty by the Human Stain (and his family). He has allegedly ripped off another family's coat-of-arms and rebranded it (you guessed it) as "TRUMP." I have a few thoughts that may prove unpopular, but here goes: First, this seems to be a…

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30.11.2022

Know anyone at Evergreen State? I have some thoughts, but want to know more. | Historiann

Did anyone else see this article from the Wall Street Journal last night: "The Campus Mob Came for Me, and You, Professor, Could Be Next?" Some flava: Racially charged, anarchic protests have engulfed Evergreen State College, a small, public liberal-arts institution where I have taught since 2003. In a widely disseminated video of the first…

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30.11.2022

History will repay your love. You don’t have to be a jerk. | Historiann

Peggy Noonan's column in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, "Why History Will Repay Your Love" (sorry--paywalled!) is an extended advertisement for David McCullough's latest book, and only secondarily an advertisement for McCullough's totally original observations about history and its importance. (Get this! John Adams and Thomas Jefferson lived in their present, not our past! Also,…

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Esther, encore, and farewell to the U.S.A. | Historiann

Coats of Arms are bullcrap. We all know this, right? | Historiann

Know anyone at Evergreen State? I have some thoughts, but want to know more. | Historiann

History will repay your love. You don’t have to be a jerk. | Historiann

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