Modern History Notes

Georgina Ferry,"The odd couple: Carl Jung, Wolfgang Pauli and mystic numbers," TLS, 2 September, reviews Arthur I. Miller's Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The strange friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung.

Scott McLemee lectures on CLR James and African American Liberation at mid-June's Socialism '09 conference in Chicago.

Lawrence Glickman,"Whole Foods Boycott: The Long View," Short Stack, 2 September, puts the boycott in historical perspective. Glickman is the author of Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America.

I'm impressed with the reviews I've read of Tracy Kidder's Strength in What Remains, but I keep wondering about its title. Could it be a misapprehension of"strengthen what remains" (Revelations 3:2)?