Modern History Notes
Diarmaid MacCulloch,"A Different Cloth," Literary Review, June, reviews John Cornwell's Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint.
Jacqueline Rose,"‘J'accuse': Dreyfus in Our Times," LRB, 10 June, probes the contemporary relevance of the Affair. Here is the video broadcast of Rose's lecture. Hat tip.
John Sutherland,"Coarser Connections," Literary Review, June, reviews Wendy Moffat's E. M. Forster: A New Life and Frank Kermode's Concerning E. M. Forster.
Lawrence James,"Deutschland Über Allah," Literary Review, June, reviews Sean McMeekin's The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918. Eliza Griswold,"The Replication of Cells," The Book, 9 June, reviews Ian Johnson's A Mosque in Munich.
Patrick Courrielche,"In Praise of Capitalism: How the ‘Social Justice' Left Uses Economic Incentives to Create Academic Propaganda," Big Journalism, 8 June; Liberty Chick,"Academia-Gate: As Big Labor and Media Push ‘Researchprop' on Our Kids, Who's Really Paying the Cost? (Part 1)," Big Journalism, 9 June, Liberty Chick,"Academia-Gate: As Big Labor and Media Push ‘Researchprop' on Our Kids, Who's Really Paying the Cost? (Part 2)," Big Journalism, 10 June, Frank Ross,"Academia-Gate: ‘Cry Wolf' Undermining the Shaky Academic Edifice of Honest, Dispassionate Scholarship," Big Journalism, 9 June, Kurt Schlichter,"Academia-Gate: Ethically and Legally, ‘Cry Wolf' Project Cries Out For Investigation," Big Journalism, 9 June, and Erin O'Connor,"Academic Astroturf," Critical Mass, 9 June, are critical of the"Cry Wolf" Project and American labor historians, including Lizbeth Cohen, Janice Fine, Jennifer Klein, Nelson Lichtenstein, Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner, Tom Sugrue, and others.
Adam Kirsch,"On the Contrary," Tablet, 8 June, reviews Christopher Hitchens's Hitch-22. Hitchens,"Fighting Words," Slate, 6 June, has three excerpts from the memoir.
Two Interviews: