Life After Graduation, Day 2

I have my master’s degree in history. Woot! The Duchess and I are going to trade places soon — I’m going back into the working world, and she’s going to do grad school. Tonight is resume night. Good times.
Also, now that my summer class, my final paper, summer vacation, language test […]

Fun with the Academic Left

The lack of self-awareness of the academic Left always amazes me. Two recent examples from my own experience:
1. A discussion about “Eurocentrism,” and Modernity.

In class we were discussing how the concept of a modernity and the Modern were Eurocentric, because they presupposed European standards of progress and they spoke of a […]

No respect for the Constitution, blacks, or his students

We’ve ended up noting Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism quite a lot around here, lately–as it so richly deserves. One of its many merits is a thorough public dressing-down of Woodrow Wilson, the race-baiting fascist founder of ethnic determinism as a key to foreign policy, and wartime regulation as a key to domestic policy. […]

Something for History Buffs and Political Types

Yale University has started digitizing some of their archives and putting it online. The collection is patchy in some places, but you can stumble upon some amazing stuff.
Here’s a link to Madison’s day-by-day notes on the Convention of 1787.
Also, check out Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789. They’ve only completed it through 1776, but it […]