Weak Endnotes

Errol Morris,"The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What It Is," Opinionator, 20-24 June: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.

Judith Thurman,"Debenedetti Confesses!" New Yorker, 24 June, has Tommaso Debenedetti's admission that his five dozen published interviews with major literary figures are fictions.

Michael Dirda reviews Hugh Trevor-Roper's History and the Enlightenment for the Washington Post, 24 June.

Robert Fulford,"French dissing, the scandalous literature that liberated a country," National Post, 21 June, reviews Robert Darnton's The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon.

Paul Kennedy,"A Time to Appease," National Interest, 22 June, argues that there's a time to appease.

Stephen M. Walt,"Question for the day," Foreign Policy, 25 June:"Are there good historical examples where a great power withdrew because a foreign military intervention wasn't going well, and where hindsight shows that the decision to withdraw was a terrible blunder? If there are plenty of examples where states fought too long and got out too late, are there clear-cut cases where states got out too early?"