Things Noted Here and There

Ethan Bronner,"Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection," NYT, 6 July, reports on what may be an extraordinary finding. All the usual caveats about its authenticity apply.

Holland Cotter,"Buddha's Caves," NYT, 6 July, looks at threats to 2000 year old cave art on the Tibetan/Mongolian border.

Lance Esplund,"Nature Painted With Force," NY Sun, 3 July, reviews"J. M. W. Turner," an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.

Malcolm Jones,"Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?" Newsweek, 7-14 July, reaches a conclusion based on the hypothetical absence of one or the other. Scott McLemee,"Thought Experiment," Quick Study, 6 July, dismisses the Newsweek piece as no more serious than you might find on the History Channel or in USA Today.

Patrick J. Walsh,"Revisiting a clash between Gilded Age titan and reformer," Boston Globe, 2 July, reviews Steve Weinberg's Taking On the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller: How an Investigative Journalist Brought Down Standard Oil.

James M. Murphy,"Fair play for the CIA," TLS, 2 July, reviews Hugh Wilford's The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA played America.

"Historians Disagree About Helms' Legacy," Raleigh News & Observer, 5 July. What's todisagree about?

In Maureen Ogle,"The Belgians Want Bud? I'll Drink to That," Washington Post, 6 July, the author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer puts the hostile take-over bid by Belgium-based InBev for control of USA-based Anheuser-Busch into historical perspective. Thanks to David Fahey for the tip.