Things Noted Here & There

Stuart Taylor, Jr.,"The Rot At Duke -- And Beyond," National Journal, 19 December, claims that Duke's faculty learned nothing from the scandal of 2006 and 2007.

Robert B. Townsend,"A New Found Religion? The Field Surges among AHA Members," Perspectives, December, and Scott Jaschik,"Religious Revival," IHE, 21 December, examine the surge of academic interest in the history of religion.

In Tony Perrottet's"Gentlemen, Charge Your Indecent Props," Slate, 18 December, the author of Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped, visits some uncommon relics at the Museum of the University of St. Andrews.

Justin Moyer reviews Thomas Fleming's The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers for the Washington Post, 20 December.

Claude R. Marx,"The man behind the Roosevelts," Boston Globe, 19 December, reviews Julie M. Fenster's FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force that Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Hat tip.

Johann Hari,"The Casanova of Causes," Slate, 20 December, reviews Michael Scammell's Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic.