Michelle Malkin has a new book coming out, re-examining the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror. It sounds like a fascinating subject. I'm always interested in well-researched historical revision (in the good sense of the word). I hope the book receives good reviews from reviewers who address its research and conclusions in substance. I certainly won't be qualified to examine all the sources or know the history well enough to understand for sure whether the conclusions and narrative are solid. Few things are so dangerous and damaging as bad history. Bad history on controversial subjects not only damages our view of history and of ourselves, but it damages our ability to understand today's choices and could tar the causes of those who write it. If Malkin's book winds up being a bad one, it will make her, as well as a number of the causes she is seen to 'represent' - rational immigration policy and other 'conservative' causes - look bad. Real bad. I just hope the book's research is rock-solid. Having read Michelle's writing for some time now, I'm confident it will be. She seems like a serious person with a reputation to defend. I plan on reading the book.