Things Noted Here & There

Cathleen McCarthy,"The Tenure Tracts," California, Spring, interviews and profiles some of Cliopatria's friends, including Tim Burke, Daniel Drezner, Brad DeLong, John Holbo, Cosma Shalizi, and Belle Waring on the place of blogging in academic lives.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein,"On the Seventh Day," NYT, 25 March, and Esther Shor,"The Rest Revolution," The Book, 26 March, review Judith Shulevitz's The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time.

H. W. Brands reviews Christian Wolmar's Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World for the Washington Post, 28 March.

John Stauffer,"In a Fury Over Freedom," WSJ, 26 March, reviews Graham Russell Gao Hodges's David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City and Scott Christianson's Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War.

Daniel Bergner,"The Land of Lock and Key," NYT, 25 March, reviews Robert Perkinson's Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire.

Jane and Michael Stern,"Before McDonald's," NYT, 25 March, reviews Stephen Fried's Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West.

Alan Brinkley,"With Justices for All," NYT, 25 March, reviews Jeff Sheshol's Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court.

Linda Gradstein reviews René Backmann's A Wall in Palestine for the Washington Post.

Douglas Brinkley reviews David Remnick's The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.

Tim Rutten reviews Tony Judt's Ill Fares the Land for the LA Times, 22 March.