Noted Here and There ...

Yesterday, I lamented David Horowitz's failure to include the Cliopatriarchs in his Network of Evil Design. Later, I learned that two of our colleagues, Oscar Chamberlain and Mark Grimsley, a Cliopatria regular, Sherman Dorn, and an HNN contributor, Ron Briley, are now singled out for attention at Horowitz's Front Page Rag. I'm jealous. But Horowitz should not mess with the Cliopatriarchs. We will trap him in his own Network. It goes this way: Chamberlain and Grimsley are Cliopatriarchs who"defend" the evil Ward Churchill. KC Johnson is also a Cliopatriarch. He has (shudder!) published at Front Page Rag. What is that? Two or three steps to treason, David! Network!

There are more shocking facts about the lack of intellectual diversity at Stanford University. Thanks to Belle Waring for the tip.

Sepoy at Chapati Mystery offers"10 Habits for a Hightly Successful Job Talk." Words to and from the wise.

The Lionel Gelber Prize for the"world's best book on foreign policy" has been won by the Washington Post's Steve Coll for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.

The New York Public Library's Digital Library is now on-line and searchable. It's a collection of 275,000 prints, maps, photographs, posters, sheet music covers, dust jacket covers, menus, and other texts. The New York Times's Sarah Boxer gives the site a mixed review. It's better than a card catalogue, but not altogether user-friendly, she says.

It's Carnival season at Cliopatria. The Early Modernists' Carnivalesque #4 is up at Philobiblion and several of us appreciate the broad definition of"early modern." Go have a look and enjoy it. The Carnival of Bad History, #1 is still up at archy. Someone slyly suggested that he doubted that it had exhausted the possibilities. It's a field ripe unto harvest. And, the Carnival of Education, Week 4, is up at the Education Wonks.

Finally, I want to mention two reviews that you may have missed:
In Sunday's New York Times, Michael Kazin had an excellent review of Ted Widmer and Arthur Schlesinger's new biography, Martin Van Buren, the"Rodney Dangerfield of presidents." I keep wanting to steal some of Kazin's language for Cliopatria, but go read Kazin, himself. Thanks to Andrew Ackerman for the pointer.

Adam Gopnik's"Voltaire's Garden" reviews Ian Davidson's new book, Voltaire in Exile for the New Yorker. The focus is on the last part of Voltaire's life, when he becomes a leading spokesman for human rights.