Weak Endnotes

Eric Hanson,"Innocence and Experience," Atlantic, October, finds that every age has its landmarks. Many are signposts of our folly.

Matthew Price,"It's just war," The National, 11 September, reviews Gary J. Bass's Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention.

Machado 21: A Centennial Celebration is New York City's remembrance this coming week of the Brazilian novelist, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.

François de Rose,"Meetings that changed the world: Paris 1951: The birth of CERN," Nature, 11 September, looks back at the meeting that launched the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire and reshaped the direction of research in nuclear physics. This article begins Nature's series on"meetings that changed the world."

Adrian Searle,"Painted screams," Guardian, 9 September, previews"Francis Bacon," a retrospective exhibit of work of 20th century Britain's most prominent artist which is opening at the Tate Britain in London.

Finally, adios to Cliopatria's friend, Ambrose Hofstader Bierce, III.