Friday Notes
Wednesday morning, the University of Leeds canceled an afternoon talk and a 2-day workshop on ‘Hitler's Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East' by the German political scientist, Matthias Kuentzel. Citing security concerns, the university bowed to a complaint from Muslim students at the University. Even if Kuentzel's interpretation is wrong or needlessly provocative, that's a terrible precedent for academic freedom in British universities.
Kathryn Gleadle, Reviews in History, March, reviews Nicola Phillips' [British] Women in Business, 1700-1850; and Sara Gottlieb,"Re-visioning International Legal History: Analyzing Women's Place in the Profession at the Turn of the Century," German Law Journal, March, reviews Mary Jane Mossman's The First Women Lawyers.
Steven B. Smith,"A Skeptical Friend of Democracy," NY Sun, 14 March, reviews Daniel Tanguay's Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography and Eugene Sheppard's Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile. Hat tip.
Sam Tanenhaus,"Athwart History: How William F. Buckley turned against the war – and his own movement," TNR, 19 March, is subscriber only, but you can read the whole thing on Richard Jensen's Conservativenet.
Paul McLeary,"How Talking Points Memo Beat the Big Boys on the U.S. Attorney Story," CJR Daily, 15 March, congratulates Josh Marshall for being way ahead of mainstream journalists on the Justice Department scandal.
Alabama: home of multimillion $ a year football coaches, exclusively heterosexual libraries, and diploma mills.
When you run short of vocabulary for the necessary retort in comments at Cliopatria, you can consult ‘Aqoul: The Lounsbury Insult Generator. Refresh, as needed. Hat tip.