what can historians do to matter?

I’m back in Malaysia, and have been much too caught up in the whirlwind of KL life to blog much — many apologies. But last night I attended a book launch by three academic specialists on Malaysia and wanted to jot down some thoughts –
The book, Sharing the Nation, comes at a timely moment in [...]

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bookporn #33: kroch library, cornell university

this is totally overdue. While I was in the States a couple of months ago, I spent 8 days in Cornell University, otherwise known as the Mecca of Southeast Asian Studies, and discovered that the Kroch Library had the most prostitutional opening hours I’ve ever encountered — 7am to 2am, staffed throughout, and the beautiful, [...]

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on agendas

I read a wonderful article by the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. recently, and two things transpired: I took heart from it, and then wondered if I should have. Though a great deal of the article is extraordinarily inspiring, I took heart in particular from Schlesinger’s own discussion of his Age of Jackson, in which he [...]

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