HeyJaredHOGELAND'S BAD HISTORY
reading the American past into the American crisis--and vice versa
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Gladwell Has the Second Amendment Wrong (opens the original)
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A friend recently told me about an interview with Malcolm Gladwell, conducted by David Remnick, on Gladwell’s new book, which is about gun violence in America. I haven’t read the book; I’m responding to the interview, and while Gladwell’s insights and ideas for improving the situation might make sense, for all I know, his explanation of the Second Amendment’s origins is so loose, hasty, and flat-out wrong that I’m suspicious—maybe incorrectly—of his other assertions. Gladwell presents, as if it
A brief post on some of the social-media commentary regarding the passing of the great American musician Dolly Parton. (opens the original)
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TO EVERYBODY WHO RESPONDED TO HER DEATH BY THINKING IT WAS OK TO ABUSE HER LEGACY BY ROPING HER INTO WHATEVER FAR LESSER PROJECT YOU'RE ALWAYS OUT HERE PROMOTING EVERY DAY ANYWAY, LIKE THIS, <source
My Problem with Endnotes. And Footnotes. And Notes in General. (opens the original)
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The Strange Story of Scholarly Citation (opens the original)
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The unhappy news of the University of Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s recent suicide in the face of academic scandal—a situation I have no take on, you’ll be happy to know—has raised familiar issues regarding standards in scholarship and revived the somewhat bleak impression, forced on me over these past twenty-plus years, of the sheer uselessness of U.S. history scholarship’s modes of handling evidence and citing sources. Arday was a sociologist, not a historian; I’m not familiar with the req
Getting Aaron Burr Wrong, Part Two (opens the original)
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What do the journalists and commentators Ryan Grim, Matthew Yglesias, Ross Douthat, and Ben Dreyfuss have in common? One thing and one thing only: getting Aaron Burr wrong. Holding varying and opposing viewpoints on most matters, those four agree more or less reflexively on the sleaziness, cynicism, even the villainy of Burr. I think that phenomenon reflects a longstanding problem in how today’s intelligentsia views the U.S. founding period’s governing elite in general. This is the second part i
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