On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:29:15 -0800 (PST), Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > For those not keeping score, Bellesiles is a discredited historian of > gun issues in early America - sort of the left-wing version of John Lott. That sort of implies you believe Lott's been discredited, which I hardly think is the case, certainly nowhere near the scale of Bellesille's widespread fraud. > This is the first I'd heard of non-ideological disagreements with Diamond > - is there something peer-reviewed I could check out? Not that I can think of offhand, but he lost me in the foreword with his Noble, Smarter than Us White People, Savages bit. > ps - "Echeverri" has a cool linguistic story, right? - maybe Basque? Give the man a cigar. pe