A review in The New Republic of Cambridge historian Tim Harper’s Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire. … More
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Poetic Nods to an Atomic Indochina
Bernard Fall… nuclear strategist? One of the pieces of archival treasure I discovered among Fall’s personal papers is a document … More
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you
Context is everything. As Maya Jasanoff, the Harvard historian, asks, in lyrical terms: “If a writer harbored bias, shall we … More
A signed statement on the failure of language
I’ve stayed away from commenting publicly on the new US administration. There’s so much fodder, so much grist, that it … More
A brief foray into distraction’s history
This looks interesting: A Crisis of Short Attention Spans, 250 Years Ago By Natalie M. Phillips | January 01, 2017 … More
