Historical Society

[Doug Henwood]

Michael Perelman asked why progressives Martin Sklar and Sean Wilentz
joined Eugene Genovese's new Historical Society. I asked a historian friend
of mine who's been following EG's rightward move (the "Adele" addressed in
yesterday's missent query). She said she didn't know about Sklar, but
Wilentz has become a neocon, spouting angry white man rhetoric in The New
Republic. Speaking of TNR, rumor was that Wilentz was on the short list of
possible editors for that plagiarism- and fiction-friendly rag when it did
the search that harvested Michael Kelly a few years ago.

Doug