More Noted Things

Philip Jenkins,"Where Did They Go?" Books & Culture, September/October, reviews Zvi Ben-Dor Benite's The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History.

Bret Stephens,"The Afghan Stakes," WSJ, 7 September, compares the effect of American withdrawal from Afghanistan to that of the battle of Adrianople in 378 A.D. on the Roman Empire."... ludicrous and hysterical ... even by the Journal's standards," says Daniel Larison's"Hawkish Alarmism Saps Support For Legitimate Wars," Eunomia, 8 September.

Olivia Judson,"The Creation of Charles Darwin," The Wild Side, 8 September, reviews"Creation," the first major film about the scientist's life.

John Tierney,"A Clash of Polar Frauds and Those Who Believe," NYT, 7 September, reviews what is claimed and what we know about explorers' reach to the North Pole in 1909.

Brooks Barnes,"Blowing the Pixie Dust Off Disney's Archives," NYT, 8 September, previews"Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives," an exhibit that appears this weekend at Southern California's Anaheim Convention Center.

Howard W. French,"Kagame's Hidden War in the Congo," NYRB, 24 September, reviews René Lemarchand's The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa, Gérard Prunier's Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe, and Thomas Turner's The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality.