The March 12, 2012 copy of The Weekly Standard magazine carries my review of Lewis Gould’s Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s reputation as a president has rocketed upward in recent decades. Gould’s book is a good reminder that Roosevelt’s presidency was pivotal—Teddy helped turn the office into the imperial institution of today. Gould also makes plain that Roosevelt was a complex...
The short answer to this question is “no.” But you might be forgiven for thinking otherwise had you read this February 1, 2012 BGov article, “Federal Union Workers Get 5.7% Raise in Freeze.” BGov took an interesting data find from a Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report and turned it into something bigger. To understand what went awry here,...
Civilization: The West and the Rest By Niall Ferguson Penguin Press, 2011, 402 pp., $35.00 Niall Ferguson is the bane of much of the academic world. His crimes are many. Whereas most academics toil in anonymity, glacially plopping out inscrutable, esoteric articles for little-read academic journals, Ferguson is a supernova. He has joint appointments at Harvard’s department of history...
Over at the Federal Education Policy Hitory website, I have posted a review of Paul Manna, Collision Course: Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011). I think highly of the book, noting: “In Collision Course, Manna, a professor at William & Mary, has judiciously considered the evidence to date on NCLB and its...
This book arrived in spring 2010, and from the moment I saw it I knew I had to read and review it. A decade ago I was Diane’s research assistant and she served on my dissertation committee. I learned much from her, and I long have admired her intellect and intensity, and that she made it to the top...
