Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Finally, a Hitler that's Really Soft and Cuddly

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As historians know, Nazi imagery proved to have immense power as a mobilizing force for a mass movement. Nowadays (perhaps we should be gr...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Retro Reading (2)

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More from the series in Le Monde : • 28 July : Yves-Marc Ajchenbaum, on Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, Les Héritiers (1964) En ...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

27-28 July 1794 (9-10 Thermidor II): The Fall of Robespierre and his Faction

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Robespierre: Aquatint portrait by Levachez; vignette of Robespierre lying wounded after his arrest: engraving by Duplessi-Bertaux, from a s...

Retro Reading

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Le Monde has been running (in French, of course) a very stimulating series of concise "Rétrolectures," offering current re-readin...

Stop to Smell the Roses

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Rosa gallica officinalis Old garden rose. Ancient: has been called the most famous rose of all time. The classic “Apothecary’s Rose,” known ...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Preservation Success Story: Town Hall Restoration Proceeds

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(a very few of) Your Tax Dollars at (very productive) Work : August 2007: Townspeople were so picky about building a Town Hall in 1889 that...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Does Society Have the Right to Kill the "Ugly"? (On Preserving Modern Buildings)

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The evolving discussion  of whether to assess and preserve modernist architecture at the University of Massachusetts echoes debates taking ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

In Memoriam Bronislaw Geremek

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Scholars and human-rights activists alike mourn the death of Polish historian and former Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek , killed in an a...

Blogosphere: Communication is the natural right of mankind

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Blogosphere Context and Comparison, an Occasional Series : As we all know, we are working in a state of flux, as the coalescence, friction, ...

Scary History

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In a new book, One Minute to Midnight , Michael Dobbs offers a fresh look at the Cuban Missile Crisis . Dobbs says the real risk of nuclear ...