Books noted: Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer. Also Dying Unneeded: The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis Also Max Hastings on the Marne and WWI more generally and Fromkin on 'Europe's Last Summer' (before WWI), the Prussian plan for war, and Fromkin on the war outcome 'The Peace to End All Peace.' DeLong also highlighted the classic book on the Marne recently, that by Sewll Tyng.

This Week: Russia and the Ukraine

Books noted: Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer Also: Dying Unneeded: The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis, reviewed in NY Review of Books with an appropriate picture. And the London Review of Books gives a related emotional justification for the Ukrainian 'rebels' and, by extension, Putin. References originated from this source.

Nice economic and cultural discussion of Alexander Hamilton. It's in a Hamilton v. Jefferson mode.