Dec 3, 2009
MidWeek Notes
History Carnival LXXXII is up at The Lay Scientist.
David W. Blight,"‘He Knew How to Die': John Brown on the Gallows, December 2, 1859," HNN, 30 November, Tony Horwitz,"The 9/11 of 1859," NYT, 1 December, and David S. Reynolds,"Freedom's Martyr," NYT, 1 December, mark the 150th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown. Here and elsewhere, Reynolds argues for pardoning the old man.
In"Decline of the West," IHE, 2 December, our colleague, Scott McLemee, takes a hard look at the intellectual decay of Princeton's Cornel West.
In"Making Sense of Senseless Violence at Berkeley," CHE, 1 December, our colleague, Aaron Bady, writes of students who make him proud to occupy a classroom.