LIVING HISTORY. Glenn Greenwald has some fun discussing President Bush's recent luncheon with some neoconservative historians and scholars (and pseudo-scholars). Speaking of historians, a huge swath of the profession has been fighting the president for years over a 2001 executive order that gives presidential administrations (including this one, of course) broad discretion to withhold the public release of presidential records indefinitely. (The Presidential Records Act had stipulated that such records must be released after 12 years.) The House is voting on a bill to rescind that executive order today.
--Sam Rosenfeld
