Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2013 No Comments »
History professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes for Slate. The fact that I grew up in Los Angeles has rarely felt relevant for my work as a China specialist. But it sure did last weekend as record-breaking levels of smog descended on Beijing. The smoggiest days I remember from my childhood in L.A. were no match for the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2013 No Comments »
The “Fred Voodoo” referred to in the title of Amy Wilentz’s impassioned but lumpy new book on Haiti, she explains, was reporters’ “joking name” for the Haitian man (or woman) in the street, at least one commonly used a few decades back in a less politically correct era. The name now represents to her foreigners’ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2013 No Comments »
History professor Jon Wiener writes for The Los Angeles Times. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago this week, has often been criticized by blacks, by radicals and also by mainstream historians who doubt its significance as a turning point in the Civil War and in American history. The skeptics range [...]
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