More Noted Things

Megan Marshall,"The Women's History Boom," Slate, 4 September, reviews Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History. Ulrich's tale stretches back to Christine de Pizan in 15th century France and then focuses on the last four decades in which women's activism has become mainstream history. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

Richard Eder,"In Literary London, Attempts at More Perfect Unions," Boston Globe, 2 September, reviews Katie Roiphe's Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939. Hat tip.

The UK National Archives has released the Security Service files on George Orwell, 1929-1950. You can download and view the files here. Thanks to Alan Allport for the tip.

Niall Ferguson,"Dollar Diplomacy," New Yorker, 27 August, reviews Greg Behrman's The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe.

Mark Schmidt,"The Real Hypocrisy of Idaho's Conservatives," Guardian, 31 August, is a hard-hitting piece about state-subsidy-loving, pseudo-libertarians of the American West. Thanks to Chris Bray and Lawyers, Guns, and Money for the tip.

In related news, Senator Larry Craig of Idaho is reconsidering his decision to resign from the Senate. This comes after changing his mind about the wisdom of pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct and earlier insisting that his toe-tapping in a men's room stall at the Minneapolis airport wasn't really a solid offer. Talk about a flip-flopper!