Wednesday's Notes
"Oliver Stone revealing 'Secret History of America'," the live feed, 18 August. You'll be glad to know all the secrets!
At Legal History, Duke's Laura Edwards is guest-blogging about her most recent book, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South.
Michael Elliott,"In the Church of Lincoln," Religion Dispatches, 17 August, argues that, while we've fashioned Abraham Lincoln a secular saint, no current politician is his match as a bare-knuckled brawler.
Peter Schjeldahl,"High and Low Relief," New Yorker, 24 August, reviews"Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," an exhibit at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Scott McLemee,"Prophets of Deceit," IHE, 19 August, finds current relevance in Leo Lowenthal's and Norbert Guterman's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator (1949).
Niall Ferguson,"A runaway deficit may soon test Obama's luck," Financial Times, 10 August, compares Barack Obama to Felix the Cat. Ferguson,"Why My Comparing Obama to Felix the Cat Is Not Racist," Huffington Post, 12 August, jumps at his shadow. Jim Fallows, PaulKrugman, Matt Yglesias and Conor Clarke call him on it.