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Paul Johnson, Requiescat in Pace

Paul Johnson is dead at 94. He contributed to the only United States History survey textbook that I ever found palatable. It took the eloquent stylings and dogged scholarship of a man, not trained as a professional historian, to show the schooled of the discipline just how to do it right. Johnson’s Modern Times (1984)…
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The Dogged (Actual) Liberal: Deirdre McCloskey

Her historical perspective has been pointed and consistent even as her gender identification has not. The brilliant and endlessly insightful Deirdre McCloskey has released her new book, really a collection of fine essays, which tackles the questions of real wealth creation, British imperialism and the Great Enrichment–a period of history in which we are truly…
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