Things Noted Here and There

by Cliopatria

Ferdinand Mount,"The Thingyness of History," TLS, 10 October, reviews"Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707–2007," an exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Art and its accompanying text, Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707–2007. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

Further, Bookforum has a roundup of recent reviews of books in modern British and European history.

David Tilley's"Histoire d'un Amour," Barista, 10 October, bids farewell to André Gorz (Gerard Horst) and his beloved Doreen.

Hitchens Unhinged: Having abandoned the Left, Christopher Hitchens has become an embarrassment to the Right. See: here and here.

In Kevin Drum's"Department of the Obvious," Political Animal, 14 October, two very different historians, Victor Davis Hanson and William R. Polk, clarify things we ought to have understood about credibility and insurgency.

Finally, KC Johnson,"Reflections on the Piot Principles," D-i-W, 15 October, replies to Charles Piot,"KC's World," Transforming Anthropology, 15:2.

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Serge Lelouche - 10/15/2007

I think Hitchens is a drunk, but that priest behaved like a hysteric.s

Sharon Howard - 10/15/2007

The story, Serge, is that a number of secular liberal folk (follow Ralph's second link) have noticed that just because Hitch is an atheist and wrote a stirring anti-religion polemic that they liked plenty, it doesn't make him their political friend. To which some of us say: well, duh. (That's one mighty fine punch-up going on over there, by the way.)

Ralph E. Luker - 10/15/2007

a) I have no reason to be upset about his book since I believe that he's got the same right to publish that I support for everyone.
b) You consider it a cheap shot to link to otherwise unrelated accounts of his drunken public appearances and insane public policy recommendations?

Serge Lelouche - 10/15/2007

Hitchens is not right-wing, and neither is the second blog you link to. Taki is "right wing" in that he espouses a variety of monarcho-fascist alliance, but he has nothing in common with Hitchens, whom he's hated for thirty years.
I imagine you're upset about his book, but where's he story here?