Sunday Notes

Michael Dirda,"Balancing the Four Humours was the Key to Health in Early Western Medicine," Washington Post, 17 June, reviews Noga Arikha's Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours.

Joseph S. Nye,"Born on the Fourth of July," Washington Post, 1 July, reviews Cullen Murphy's Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, Anne-Marie Slaughter's The Idea that is America, and David Gelernter's Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion.

Frank Kermode,"Nothing for Ever and Ever," LRB, 5 July, reviews Archie Burnett's two volume edition of The Letters of A. E. Housman.

Kevin Mattson,"Movies as History," The Common Review, 2007, reflects on his experience in creating a course for Ohio University's history department, History Through Film. Hat tip.

Adam Liptak,"The Same Words, But Differing Views," NYT, 29 June, reports on the reactions of former NAACP attorneys who developed its case in Brown v Board of Education to the interpretation of Brown in Chief Justice Roberts opinion. In a word, says Jack Greenberg, Roberts' interpretation of Brown is"preposterous."

Finally, Tim Lacy's tapped me for the"eight meme," but I can't top Scott Eric Kaufman's"The First Ever Acephalous Podcast: The Eight Meme."