More Noted Things

Indian History Carnival #21 is up at varnam; and the history of science carnival, The Giant's Shoulders #15, is up at Entertaining Research.

"A conversation with Jill Lepore," Humanities, September/ October, is a charming interview about her work as a historian.

Caleb Crain,"It Happened One Decade," New Yorker, 21 September, reviews Morris Dickstein's Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression. See also: Crain's related posts at Steamboats are ruining everything.

Jonathan Chait,"Wealthcare," TNR, 14 September, reviews Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and Anne C. Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made.

Meredith Hindley,"Supremely Contentious: The Transformation of ‘Advice and Consent'," Humanities, September/October, tracks the Senate's transition from routine approval to massive confrontation on Supreme Court nominations.

Johann Hari,"Where Have All the Women Gone?" Slate, 14 September, reviews Nicholas Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.