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Doug Moe: All the academic world’s a stage

WHOEVER SAID there is no business but show business was onto something.

Stanley Kutler, the esteemed U.S. historian who lives in Madison, was sipping tea on the far west side Monday afternoon and thinking about something his late, great colleague in the UW history department, George Mosse, used to say about being a professor.

“We don’t teach,” Mosse said. “We perform.”