Robert Townsend reports on a new study of time-to-degree for doctoral candidates in the United States. It finds that only a quarter of them in history finish within seven years and fewer than half finish within ten years. Mary Dudziak reads the implications of the data slightly differently.

Gidon Shaviv has a page of links to Historical Podcasts that are a rich resource for all areas and periods.

In its 84th edition at The Voltage Gate, the Science Carnival, Tangled Bank, focuses on Science in Ancient Greece. Hat tip.

Matthew Reynolds,"Most Himself," LRB, 19 July, reviews Paul Hammond and David Hopkins, eds., The Poems of John Dryden: Vol. V 1697-1700, and Hammond and Hopkins, eds., Dryden: Selected Poems. The case for"enjoying" Dryden is a difficult one.

Mary Loeffelholz,"A New Appreciation of Fuller as a Writer, Thinker, and Risk-Taker," Boston Globe, 18 July, reviews Charles Capper's long-awaited Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. II, The Public Years.

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow,"Sanger vs. Sanger," The Nation, 30 July, reviews Esther Katz, et al., eds., The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928 and Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928-1939.