20th Century Notes

The Giant's Shoulders #36 is up at The Dispersal of Darwin.

NPR's "All Things Considered" covers the Boston College/Irish Republican Army/Oral History story. See also Chris Bray's "Troubles," Cliopatria, 17 June, and the thoughtful discussion there between Bray and a pseudonymous commentator.

Clair Wills, "History, magic and William Butler Yeats," TLS, 15 June, reviews Ann Saddlemyer, ed., W. B. Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters and R. F. Foster's Words Alone: Yeats and his inheritances.

Reuel Marc Gerecht, "The First Time," The Book, 15 June, reviews Charles Townshend's Desert Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia.

Peter Foges, "The Mystique Of The Manual," Roundtable, 14 June, recalls the extraordinary Simone Weil.

James Kirchek, "The Butchery of Hitler and Stalin," Policy Review, 1 June, reviews Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.

Jeet Heer, "Divine Inspiration," The Walrus, July, argues for the centrality of Catholicism to Marshall McLuhan's intellectual life.

James Risen, "Ex-Spy Alleges Bush White House Sought to Discredit Critic," NYT, 16 June, reports the claims of former CIA officer Glenn L. Carle that he was twice asked to gather derogatory information on Michigan's Juan Cole for the Bush administration. In turn, Cole asks the Senate and House intelligence committees for investigations of the allegations.