Saturday Notes

William Grimes,"Perhaps There's Some Life in the Old Corpus Yet," NYT, 14 December, reviews Nicholas Ostler's Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin and Harry Mount's Carpe Diem: Put a Little Latin in Your Life.

Edward Hirsch,"A Stranger in Camelot," NYT, 16 December, reviews Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation.

Rebecca Goetz has both her syllabi up for next semester: HIST 265 North America in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1804; and HIST 584 The Early South, 1500-1800. The latter is a graduate research seminar.

Jeffrey H. Birnbaum,"In the Course of Human Events, Still Unpublished," Washington Post, 15 December, looks at pressure to speed the publication of the Founding Fathers' papers.

John Patrick Diggins,"The Godless Delusion," NYT, 16 December, reviews Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. But, see also, Brandon Watson's qualms about Diggins's review.

At Uncommon Knowledge, National Review's Peter Robinson has a series of five podcast interviews with Victor Davis Hanson. They discuss military conditions in the Middle East, as well as Hanson's assessment of the state of military history.