October 28, 2004

Plus, All Those Trial-Lawyer-Induced Jury Awards Make It Hard to Get Historiographic-Malpractice Insurance

The Confidence Man reads with bemusement the latest quinquennial irruption of the "Historiography in Crisis!" swarm.

(Another neologism opportunity: "buzzing" cultural forms that run in unremarked cycles, and are dependent upon the unremarkedness to maintain their cyclicity and currency, should be said to operate on cicadian rhythms.)

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