Things Noted Here and There

Two new aggregator sites of interest:

Daily Source.org, a daily news aggregator; and

History Nexus, an aggregator of history-related sites.

Spanking the Patriarchy:

Joy Connolly,"Wife-Beating in Ancient Rome," TLS, 9 April, reviews the recent literature; and

Miland Brown reproduces a"Bolshevik Press Message – 30th August 1919." The stunningly sexist text seems to be mistitled because the statement claims to speak for anarchists in Saratov. Question: Is it an authentic document?

Improbable Relationships:

Scott McLemee's The Last Page, Dissent, Spring, on Norman Mailer and Dissent;

Elizabeth Day,"The Odd Couple's Special Relationship," Guardian, 13 April, reviews Carole Seymour-Jones's dual biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, A Dangerous Liason; and

Evergreen State's Stephanie Coontz, the author of Marriage: A History, will be online with the Washington Post this morning at 11:00 a.m. EST"to discuss generational differences in the criteria used to choose spouses." You can pose questions now and read the discussion here later.