Friday's Notes

The new old:

"Science historian cracks ‘the Plato code'," Manchester, 28 June, according to the University of Manchester's Jay Kennedy. He blogs at Jay Kennedy: History and Philosophy of Science.

Rossella Lorenzi,"Cleopatra Killed by Drug Cocktail?" DiscoveryNews, 1 July. Yes, according to Christoph Schäfer, a German historian and professor at the University of Trier.

Middling Distance:

Michael Braddick,"Gerrard Winstanley's wild Digger days," TLS, 30 June, reviews Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein, eds., The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley.

Anne Raver,"At Monticello, Jefferson's Methods Endure," NYT, 30 June, in his garden.

The old new:

Matthew Price,"Imperialism may be immoral, but that's not why empires fall," The National, 1 July, reviews Timothy Parsons's The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fail.

Mary Dudziak,"Thurgood Marshall got Kagan treatment, too," CNN Opinion, 1 July, argues that Kagan's treatment in the Senate mistakes her relationship with Marshall.