Book: The Genuine Article by Edmund Morgan

Morgan, Edmund. 2004. The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. W.W. Norton and Company.

This is a collection of book reviews by a noted American (in both senses) historian. The book reviews, as is standard in the New York Review of Books where they appeared, do more than just narrowly remark on a particular book; instead, they provide brief introductions to particular literatures in the course of putting the book or books at hand into context. I enjoyed it throughout.

But shouldn't it be "An Historian"?

Recommended if you are into such things.

Amazon book page
Barnes and Noble book page

Some pandemic x academic humor

Twitter version here.

What real libertarianism looks like ...

An excellent interview on twitter.

Hat tips: Imbernomics

And you thought your family was eccentric ...

... how about these folks.

On recent machinations in the royal family ...

... and an example of the excellence of the Economist.

AEA best practices

Apparently one best practice is to photograph me from behind.

Hat tip: an astute CSWEPer

The struggle against vaping ...

... and an alternative.