Andrew Roberts,"The King Who Couldn't Speak," Daily Beast, 20 November, reviews"The King's Speech." A charming film, says Roberts. Very bad history.

Dahlia Lithwick,"Egos on the Bench," Slate, 17 November, reviews Noah Feldman's Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices.

David Greenberg,"Give 'Em Hell, Barry," Slate, 19 November, argues that Truman could teach Obama a thing or two about dealing with Congress.

Graeme Wood,"Good Hope in Bad Trouble," WSJ, 19 November, reviews R. W. Johnson's South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid.

Niall Ferguson,"In China's Orbit," WSJ, 18 November, argues that"after 500 years of Western predominance, ..., the world is tilting back to the East."