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From another field: the bitterness of this dispute was truly dispiriting, but not atypical of the professional behavior in which scholars were trained. That seems to have changed. David Abraham has continued to produce extremely interesting work.
Martin Jay, in a chapter in 1/
Gordon - McCormick, _Weimar Thought_ 2013, treats ch 5 of Abraham's _Collapse of the Weimar Republic_ as a reliable source, without reference to his critics. Is there a backstory to that demonstration of respect, three decades after Abraham's book was attacked by a Berkeley 2/
colleague? Whatever, as a fairly isolated recognition, late in the day, it seems to merit mention. 3/
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Really interesting article.
This statement: "It is unlikely that the mapmaker is trying to trick you, but maps have hidden biases and limitations. Because of their 'God’s eye view,' maps more than charts or texts may make readers think that they have complete knowledge, but 1/
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of power which ... changed their form and function as the colonized zones entered the age of mechanical reproduction: ... the census, the map, and the museum ... profoundly shaped the way in which the colonial state imagined its dominion – the nature of the human beings it 3/
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Will Davies' compelling review of Keir Milburn's _Generation Left_ (LRB Feb 20) led me to purchase the book. The "generation" is the one affected by the 2008 crash / 2011 Occupy movements, and the picture is dire: UK and USA both now riven by 1/

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The _Time Mag_ article Rogin cites was part of the furor over the Church Committee's investigation of misbehavior by US security agencies. Kuznetsov is mentioned only once, in a list of Soviet embassy officials who tried to get info from Senate staffers. This was the 1/
era of James Jesus Angleton at the CIA, and it's quite likely both sides were seeking info. The _Time_ article's main point is that Frank Church ignored info about Russky spies. Anyone who's talked with CIA staff from those days knows such stories were widespread. Church, 2/
though still vilified in some circles, did a pretty sound job. 1976 was the year the second iteration of Committee on the Present Danger was formed, to lobby vs détente and SALT II, inflating data as it proceeded.
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