Katrina Gulliver,"In Olden Days, A Glimpse of Blogging," Tenured Radical, 28 January, recalls ten years of history blogging and looks ahead to more.

Tom Holland for the Telegraph, 23 January, and Anthony Beevor for the Guardian, 29 January, review Simon Sebag Montefiore's Jerusalem: The Biography.

James Q. Wilson,"Beyond Ideology," WSJ, 23 January, and Paul Berman,"Irving Kristol's Brute Reason," NYT, 27 January, review Irving Kristol's The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009.

Historians bid farewell to Daniel Bell: Ben Alpers, Eric Alterman, Paul Buhle, Morris Dickstein, Andrew Hartman, Michael Kazin, and Kevin Mattson.