Things Noted Here & There
Manjit Kumar reviews David Wootton's Galileo: Watcher of the Skies for the Telegraph, 10 October.
A. C. Grayling reviews Sean McMeekin's The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898 to 1918 for the Barnes & Noble Review, 8 October.
Ray Suarez,"Red, Brown, and Blue," Democracy, Fall, reviews Peter Schrag's Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America.
Jill Lepore,"Too Much Information," New Yorker, 18 October, looks back at a century of sex education in the United States.
Jane Ridley,"Onward Christian Nurses," Literary Review, October, and"Carve Her Name with Pride," Economist, 7 October, review Diana Souhami's Edith Cavell.
When Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg attack Woodrow Wilson, Radley Balko at Reason, John Milton Cooper of Wisconsin, Mark Atwood Lawrence of Texas, Jill Lepore of Harvard, Michael Lind of the New America Foundation, George H. Nash, Edward Tenner of the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center, and Thomas G. West of Dallas debate the claims.
Neal Ascherson reviews Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin for the Guardian, 9 October.
Robert G. Kaiser reviews Derek Leebeart's Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan for the Washington Post, 10 October.
On the eve of publication of his letters, Rachel Cooke interviews Saul Bellow's widow, Janis, for the Guardian, 10 October.
Sean Wilentz,"The Confounding Fathers," New Yorker, 18 October, finds the Tea Party's origins in the paranoid politics of the Cold War era.