On her book Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America
Cover Interview of January 22, 2012
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February 03, 2012
Elaine!! sorry
February 03, 2012
Hi Ellen. Sounds like a fascinating book. Good to hear of it and see your face, and if I was reading the way I used to I’d definitely get it soon. As it is, well, someday. Made me think about the Columbia Seminar.
How did I get here? was stirring around the thought that the general public has strikingly little knowledge of how wars begin and how they end. Started googling “How wars begin” but before I got to “begin” it was offering “end” as a choice. Went back to that, found Dan Reiter’s book of that title. 2009, Amazon ranking 500,000+ (sad), and the one and only Amazon reader review was by Rorotoko.com. Remembered finding them interesting once upon a time, clicked on current issue, and there you were.
Sounds like you, me, and Rorotoko are drawn to underrated topics.
I’m guessing I won’t get mail-bombed if I put my email address here - hal@panix.com.
The dominant premise in evolution and economics is that a person is being loyal to natural law if he or she attends to self’s interest and welfare before being concerned with the needs and demands of family or community. The public does not realize that this statement is not an established scientific principle but an ethical preference. Nonetheless, this belief has created a moral confusion among North Americans and Europeans because the evolution of our species was accompanied by the disposition to worry about kin and the collectives to which one belongs.Jerome Kagan, Interview of September 17, 2009
[T]he Holocaust transformed our whole way of thinking about war and heroism. War is no longer a proving ground for heroism in the same way it used to be. Instead, war now is something that we must avoid at all costs—because genocides often take place under the cover of war. We are no longer all potential soldiers (though we are that too), but we are all potential victims of the traumas war creates. This, at least, is one important development in the way Western populations envision war, even if it does not always predominate in the thinking of our political leaders.Carolyn J. Dean, Interview of February 01, 2011
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February 03, 2012Elaine!! sorry
February 03, 2012Hi Ellen. Sounds like a fascinating book. Good to hear of it and see your face, and if I was reading the way I used to I’d definitely get it soon. As it is, well, someday. Made me think about the Columbia Seminar.
How did I get here? was stirring around the thought that the general public has strikingly little knowledge of how wars begin and how they end. Started googling “How wars begin” but before I got to “begin” it was offering “end” as a choice. Went back to that, found Dan Reiter’s book of that title. 2009, Amazon ranking 500,000+ (sad), and the one and only Amazon reader review was by Rorotoko.com. Remembered finding them interesting once upon a time, clicked on current issue, and there you were.
Sounds like you, me, and Rorotoko are drawn to underrated topics.
I’m guessing I won’t get mail-bombed if I put my email address here - hal@panix.com.
Best Wishes, Hal