Things Noted Here & There

Edward Rothstein,"A Hatred That Resists Exorcism," NYT, 5 July, reviews Robert S. Wistrich's A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad and Anthony Julius's Trials of the Diaspora: : A History of Anti-Semitism in England.

Catherine Rampell,"They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)," NYT, 2 July, features Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, the authors of This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.

Jeffrey Rosen reviews Adrian Johns's Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates for the Washington Post, 4 July.

Toby Lester,"How America got its name," Boston Globe, 4 July, explains how"the new world" came to be called"America".

Jenna Weissman Joselit,"Enlightened Views," The Tablet, 1 July, reviews Lynn Hunt's, Margaret C. Jacob's and Wijnand Mijnhardt's The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard's Religious Ceremonies of the World.

Sean Wilentz,"July 4th's Forgotten Partisan History," Daily Beast, 4 July, looks at a history of conflict over the 4th of July.

Wendy Smith reviews James L. Haley's Wolf: The Lives of Jack London for the Washington Post, 4 July.
David Pilling,"The Chinese Way," FT, 3 July, reviews Jeffrey Wasserstrom's China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Richard Baum's China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom, Martin King Whyte's Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China, and Edward Tse's The China Strategy: Harnessing the power of the world's fastest-growing economy.