Friday Notes

Thomas Doherty,"Response to Human Apparatchiks," The Brandeis Hoot, 16 November, protests Brandeis administration's appointment of student monitors of"linguistic conformity and political orthodoxy" in its classrooms. I urge you to read it. Similar apparatchiks, known as"diversity monitors" at Antioch College, not only lied in what they claimed I said in the classroom, but later returned to disrupt student presentations in a seminar. Hat tip.

Mary Beard,"Have we found the Cave of Romulus?" A Don's Life, 21 November, puts the Roman archaeological discovery in perspective.

Michael Pye,"Paint, Passion, and Paradox," Scotsman, 17 November, reviews John Richardson's and Marilyn McCully's A Life of Picasso, Volume III, The Triumphant Years 1917-1932.

Greg Grandin,"Sucking Up to P," LRB, 29 November, reviews Robert Dallek's Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power and Jeremi Suri's Henry Kissinger and the American Century. Hat tip.
Update: See Professor Grandin's correction in comments here at Cliopatria.

Daniel Larison's"Term Limits," The American Conservative, 19 November, explains how Christopher Hitchens' and David Horowitz's use of the term"Islamofascism" bankrupts language and makes reasonable discussion impossible.

For Thanksgiving at Tenured Radical, Claire Potter recognized the year's"Top Ten Turkeys." Fortunately, she remembered to honor one of the Cliopatricians. Gobble, gobble, Claire!

Finally, congratulations to new officers elected by the AHA and to Dan Cohen, who has been named to succeed the late Roy Rosenzweig as director of George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. Hat tip.