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• Apr 25, 2008
  

  Friday Notes

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  Jonathan Bate,"The mad worlds of Thomas Middleton," TLS, 23 April, reviews Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, eds., The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton and Taylor and Lavagnino, eds., Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture.

  Jared Diamond,"

  

• Apr 24, 2008
  

  Who leads in the pop vote category?

  by Cliopatria

  The following money quote from Michael Barone's US News column helps clarify the answer to this question.

  Clinton now leads in the popular vote, if you include the Florida and Michigan results, by 121,943 votes. And even if you include the imputed totals for the Iowa, Nevada, Washington, and Maine cauc

  

• Apr 24, 2008
  

  Not just a colleague, but a mentor: on hiring a new African-Americanist

  by Cliopatria

  As some Cliopatria readers will know, the feminist blogosphere continues to go through an unusually painful period of discussion and debate about race, sex, and intersectionality. And while it really isn't all about me, I find it, if not ironic, oddly serendipitous that this semester finds me on a hiring committee to select a new African-American specialist for a tenure-track position. The first round of interviews unfold this afternoon and tomorrow.
  
  Confidentiality protocol bars
  

• Apr 24, 2008
  

  Historians as Public Intellectuals

  by Cliopatria

  At Crooked Timber, where he's guest-blogging, and The Edge of the American West, Eric Rauchway calls attention to Foreign Policy's"The Top 100 Public Intellectuals," May/June. You're invited to vote for your top five. Last year's voting yielded

• Apr 23, 2008
  

  From the Devil's Dictionary

  by Cliopatria

  Past,n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs; the Future is the realm of song. In the o

  

• Apr 23, 2008
  

  Wednesday Notes

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  Daniel Mendelsohn,"Arms and the Man," New Yorker, 28 April, reviews Robert B. Strassler, ed., The Landmark Herodotus and James Romm's Herodotus.

  Hilary Mantel,"Frocks and Shocks," LRB, 24 April, reviews Julia Fox's Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford.

  Julia Keller,"

• Apr 23, 2008
  

  More Recent Notes

  by Cliopatria

  Eurozine features a symposium on Post-secular Europe. It responds to Jürgen Habermas's essay,"The Dialectic of Secularization." See also: J. Carter Wood at Obscene Desserts. Thanks to Nathanael Robinson for the tip.

  Virginia Rounding,"

• Apr 22, 2008
  

  Bill Channels Wilentz

  by Cliopatria

  Politico's Ben Smith has the audio of Bill Clinton, advancing Sean Wilentz's bizarre thesis that Obama, not the Clintons, played the race card in the nominating process: