Friday's Notes

Harry Farid,"Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images," Scientific American, June, tells where the clues are found."Digital Forensics: Photo Tampering Throughout History," ibid., is a slide show of 10 photographs that are well-known examples of pre-photoshop tampering. Hat tip.

James Wood,"Holiday in Hellmouth," New Yorker, 9 June, reviews Bart D. Ehrman's God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer our Most Important Question -- Why We Suffer.

Joshua Cohen,"The Ambivalent Reporter," Jewish Daily Forward, 15 May, reviews Paul Reitter's The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe. Hat tip.

Mark Falcoff,"Imperial Bedfellows," Commentary, June, reviews Arthur Herman's Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.

Louis Menand,"The Pound Error," New Yorker, 9 June, reviews David Moody's Ezra Pound, Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work.

Michael Kazin,"Strange Alchemy," Nation, 3 June, reviews Daniel Flynn's A Conservative History of the American Left. A longer piece, Robin Corey's"Out of Place," Nation, 23 June, reviews Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative, Bruce Shulman's and Julian Zelizer's Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, and Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons.

Finally, r t crooks,"The 10 Oldest Bars in the United States," Sloshspot, 2 June, gets added to and corrected by readers' comments. Newport, Rhode Island's White Horse Tavern (est. 1673 CE) may actually be the oldest, but, of course, someone would point out that Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem pub at Nottingham, England, dates to 1189.