Things Noted Here and There

Several days ago, KC referred to Gordon Woods,"The Founders Rule!" TNR, a review of Bruce Ackerman's The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy. That's a free link to Woods' review.

At Liberty & Power, Mark Brady calls attention to two articles in Saturday's Guardian: Ian Cobain,"Revealed: UK Wartime Torture Camp," and Cobain,"The Secrets of the London Cage." They reveal Great Britain's use of torture to get information from captured Gestapo and SS officers during World War II. The London office of the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (known unofficially as the London Cage) was at 6-8 Kensington Palace Gardens, in an affluent section of west London.

Carlos C. Huerta,"I Never Knew His Name," National Review, 11 November, is the moving story of a Jewish chaplain who comforts a mortally wounded Muslim child in Mosul with words taught him by a Muslim Imam and is, in turn, comforted by a Roman Catholic chaplain. Thanks to Andrew Dzwonchyk at Maroon Blog for the tip.