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Aug 18, 2008

Let The History Games Begin!


by Cliopatria


mcfrosticles, the gaming historian, offers histories of games and consoles on YouTube. He's a computer technician and history major at North Carolina's Elizabeth City State University. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

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    • Boston University's Andrew J. Bacevich appears on Bill Moyers Journal to discuss the United States' three interlocking crises. His book is The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.

    Michiko Kakutani,"Literary Soul Mates or Authors Who Were Polar Opposites?" NYT, 14 August, reviews David Lebedoff's The Same Man: George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love and War.

    Kate Bolick,"Chic-Lit Pioneer," NYT, 17 August, reviews Irene Gammel's Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic.

    Jonathan Yardley reviews William McKeen's Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson for the Washington Post, 17 August. Seriously, I'm still grappling with learning that Thompson's father and my mother were first cousins.


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    Chris Bray - 8/19/2008

    Andrew Bacevich is a tremendously smart and accomplished guy, but his views about our own fallen era sure seem to center on a fictionalized past.

    From the transcript of the Moyers interview: "There was a time, seventy, eighty, a hundred years ago, that we Americans sat here in the western hemisphere, and puzzled over why British imperialists went to places like Iraq and Afghanistan. We viewed that sort of imperial adventurism with disdain."

    That's so plainly wrong in so many ways, starting with the idea that Americans couldn't engage in "imperial adventurism" while sitting right here in the Western Hemisphere.

    "Seventy, eighty, a hundred years ago" Americans viewed imperial adventurism with disdain -- while fighting in the Philippines, landing troops in Honduras, occupying Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, and sending the Great White Fleet around the world. My goodness, how'd all this interventionism show up on the scene in 2008?

    I agree with most of what Bacevich says about our current political dilemma, but his historical framing always seems way off base to me.