American Notes

by Cliopatria

Christina Hoff Sommers,"Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship," CHE, 29 June, gets a reply in Claire Potter's"'And Your Little Dog Too!!!' Christina Hoff Sommers Still Wants the Ruby Slippers," Tenured Radical, 1 July.

The new Common-place is up, with a forum on Thomas Paine and some other good things.

Kathleen Duval,"Life, Liberty and Benign Monarchy?" NYT, 2 July, looks at alternative forms of governance in late 18th century North America.

Michael Dirda,"Liebling, At the Top of His Game," Washington Post, 2 July, reviews A. J. Liebling's The Sweet Science and other Writings.

Katie Roiphe,"My Life In a G-String: A Round Up of Stripper Memoirs," doubleX, 22 June, reports what they have to say, so you don't have to read them.

John McMillian,"Today's Reverberations From the 60s," CHE, 29 June, is the reflections of an editor of the new journal, The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture.

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Loved the Kathleen Duval column -- it's hard to write history on the op-ed page, and she draws a well-argued point in a clean, clear way. Makes me wonder how it ended up on the op-ed page of the New York Times, but never mind.