On her book Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America
Cover Interview of January 23, 2012
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February 04, 2012
Elaine!! sorry
February 04, 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.
Spontaneous generation is one of those wrong theories that clutter the basements of the biological sciences and that now look so very obviously wrong that it is hard to see how anyone could have taken them seriously in the first place. Why wouldn’t it occur to anyone that flies might be laying eggs that were too small for us to see? How simple would the crucial experiment be? What I have tried to do in much of my work is to turn this ‘obvious wrongness’ on its head—why, exactly, does it seem so obviously wrong?—and see what the new picture that emerges from that inquiry says about science and our belief in its results.Daryn Lehoux, Interview of November 13, 2017
It’s commonplace to say that humor is subjective, since what’s funny to you might not be funny to me. But humor is also a loaded concept. If you – or your people – have no sense of humor, or the wrong one, that means you’re less rational, tolerant, understanding, or civilized. You don’t get it. Or, worse, you lack something human. Modern Chinese debates about humor were very much caught up with these fundamental questions of value.Christopher Rea, Interview of October 26, 2016
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February 04, 2012Elaine!! sorry
February 04, 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