Tuesday's Notes

Stephen McGinty,"Tapestry row sparks new Norman conflict," Scotsman, 25 June, looks at the recent controversy over the provenance of the Bayeux Tapestry, which it calls"the most famous cartoon strip in history." Michael Lewis's The Real World of the Bayeux Tapestry will argue that it was made in England and he supports a new"Campaign to bring the Bayeux Tapestry back to Britain," Telegraph, 24 June. Unlikely chance, that. England may have to settle for the Daily Mail's Battle of Boujis: A Bayeux Tapestry for the 21st Century. Hat tip.
Addendum: In case you've not seen it, YouTube's Bayeux Tapestry is below the fold.

Winston Fletcher,"Art or puffery? A defence of advertising," New Humanist, 2008, anticipates the publication of Fletcher's Powers of Persuasion: The Inside Story of British Advertising.

You can hear the Washington Post's rare recording of Mahatma Gandhi addressing a New Dehli audience in English. The 1947 recording may have been his last speech.

Gene Weingarten's"Fiddling Around With History," Washington Post, 29 June, contemplates the very unoriginality of the idea for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Hat tip.

Kevin O'Kelly,"An enlightening study of nerd history," Boston Globe, 25 June, reviews Benjamin Nugent's American Nerd: The Story of My People. Hat tip.

Finally, Foreign Policy has released the final rankings in voting for its"The Top 100 Public Intellectuals." The list includes: 8. Tariq Ramadan, 11. Noam Chomsky, 13. Bernard Lewis, 14. Umberto Eco, 17. Fareed Zakaria, 22. Jürgen Habermas, 27. Christopher Hitchens, 31. Jared Diamond, 45. Tony Judt, 51. Drew Gilpin Faust, 62. Niall Ferguson, 73. Samantha Power, and 87. Anne Applebaum.