For all of you who admired and learned from Gordon Wood's work, as I manifestly did, here is a fresh set of tributes at the Library of America website.
www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
The Covid stuff makes me really queasy. I don’t really know what to say to that.
France seems very patient.
It's bizarre to me that serious policymakers think they can rebut lies by changing their own behavior. The liar couldn't care less what the actual policy is and your "New Directions in Lesotho" press release will never be read in Peoria.
Another piece that I was really excited to write. Why has South Africa’s judicial transformation been so successful when the judiciary was so heavily implicated in apartheid’s crimes? And what lessons does that transformation hold for us?
New article out, open access, in Itinerario: “West Papuans between transnationalism and internationalism.” I trace how West Papuan activists used regional organisations and the UN to push for self‑determination, linking their campaigns to debates about race, sovereignty, and representation.
With Elon Musk stoking fascist violence all over the world, it's a damn good time to be reading @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on Muskism. Explains a lot about the deeper toxicity of his worldview and grand plans
www.amazon.com/Muskism-Guid...
It is with deep sadness that we learn of the death of historian Gordon S. Wood at the age of 92. Wood was a longtime friend and advisor to the Library of America who generously shared his incomparable...
