Dear Jeff, Just a smallpoint. You put down Professor Serhii Plokhii of Harvard University on The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, as an 'ex patriot writer'. You are an ex patriot writer. Your writings may be just as valid as the historian's. Or may not. Nothing to do with being an ex patriot.
fair point. it was meant to be expatriate, and so was drawing attention to the political role of the diaspora in the USA. Not so much a put down, as an explanation of his position that he is quite explicit about in the book
Dear Jeff, Just a smallpoint. You put down Professor Serhii Plokhii of Harvard University on The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, as an 'ex patriot writer'. You are an ex patriot writer. Your writings may be just as valid as the historian's. Or may not. Nothing to do with being an ex patriot.
fair point. it was meant to be expatriate, and so was drawing attention to the political role of the diaspora in the USA. Not so much a put down, as an explanation of his position that he is quite explicit about in the book