I just learned from this blog item on the Foreign Policy Website that one of the more admirable California scholars of our time, Chalmers Johnson, died Sunday in his home in Cardiff-by-the-Sea.

(See update below.) When I got the news in the middle of last night that Chalmers Johnson had died, I put up a very brief commemoration, intending to do more later. It turns out that that will not be ...

Chalmers Johnson, an influential scholar of East Asia’s political economy whose seminal writings forced a reevaluation of both the Chinese Revolution and the Japanese “economic miracle,” has died. He ...

American scholar Chalmers Johnson, a sharp critic of U.S. foreign policy whose views on Japan’s economic rise bucked the establishment 30 years ago, has died at age 79. The author of at least 17 books ...

[amazon 0805093036 full]Chalmers Johnson, the renowned political scientist of Asia, died on Saturday. Steve Clemons, who worked closely with him, has written a warm and generous tribute. It is fully ...

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THE SORROWS OF EMPIRE: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic. By Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan, 400 pp. $25. IN Blowback, published in 2000, historian Chalmers Johnson argued that ...

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Way back in 1999, when I was still a Tomdispatch-less book editor, I read a proposal from Chalmers Johnson. He was, then, known mainly as a scholar of modern Japan, though years earlier I had read his ...