I recently finished a pair of books: The French: Portrait of a People by De Gramont and Barbarian Migration and the Roman West by Halsall. Both were interesting in their own right, but I found them even more fascinating from the standpoint of historiography. Both books were good reminders that …

My dissertation focuses on elites’ usage of regions and regional identities to alter public opinion in order to achieve their political preferences. Hence, my delight to discover Rethinking the Mediterranean in the Fulbright Library here in Morocco. It is a book that details how elites and …

How Severe is the Problem?

“Many people are likely to be misinformed, not only inaccurate in their factual beliefs but confident that they are right.” So say Kuklinski and colleagues (2000, p.809); modest enough, but in the same article, they find that most people are misinformed about …