Midweek Notes

Congratulations to Natalie Zemon Davis of Princeton and Toronto who has won Norway's 4.5 million kroner ($785,000) Holberg International Memorial Prize for distinguished work in history.

Rebecca Kaplan,"Students protest tenure denial of professor," Daily Pennsylvanian, 16 March, reports student reaction to the tenure denial of Ronald J. Granieri by Penn's history department. If you look at all he brings to the table, it looks like a bad decision.

Adam Kirsch,"Political Legacy," The Tablet, 16 March, reviews Eric Nelson's The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought.

Timothy R. Smith reviews Mark Lee Gardner's To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West for the Washington Post, 14 March.

Istvan Rev,"An Absurdist Film That Touches on Wartime Reality," NYT, 15 March, reviews the WWII era film,"Inglorious Basterds," and finds more truthfulness in it than other reviewers have believed. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

Dwight Garner,"Renewing an Old Idea: Common Good," NYT, 16 March, reviews Tony Judt's Ill Fares the Land.

Finally, in"Relative values: Simon Schama and his daughter Chloë," London's Sunday Times, 14 March, the distinguished historian and his newly published daughter discuss their relationship.