Catching my eye: morning A through Z

Here’s what’s caught my eye this morning:

  • I don’t have much to add on Jill Carroll’s release in Iraq. I’ve got my eye on the Iraqi bloggers for reaction on this (some of whom are friends of hers) but they haven’t posted on it yet.
  • I continue to have no interest in following the play-by-play on the FISA/wiretapping issue. I said my piece when the story first came out and I’m quite content to let the investigations and inquiries play themselves out. I don’t think that the most recent developments sound like they’ll cover the Democrats who’ve been calling for the president’s head with glory.
  • By all means take a look at the series that ZenPundit Mark Safranski has been running on the evolution of foreign policy thought in American elites over the last thirty years. Interesting stuff. The first installment is here. The second is here. His series will dovetail well with the piece I’m working on on the evolution of 19th century populist and progressive movements in the United States.

That’s the lot.

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  • Hi Dave,

    On the origins of the economic philosophy of the Populists you might want to look at two historians – Stephen Hahn’s work on Upcountry Yeomen farmers and Allan Kulikoff’s _Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism_. I studied under Kulikoff and can vouch for his scholarly rigor.

    A less sober and objective view but one very rich in the details of the Farmer’s Alliance and People’s Party and its leading personalities can be had from Lawrence Goodwyn ( _Populist Moment_ I think is the title. Something like that)

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