More Noted Things

Patricia Cohen,"Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses," NYT, 21 September, looks at some conservative initiatives at places as different as Hamilton College and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Paul Harvey,"Liberation and Oppression, All Tangled Up," Books & Culture, September/October, reviews Mark Noll's God and Race in American Politics: A Short History.

Victorino Matus,"Burger Triumphant: Or, requiem for the hot dog," Weekly Standard, 29 September, reviews Josh Ozersky's The Hamburger: A History.

D. D. Guttenplan,"An Inky, Well-Paneled Place," The Nation, 29 September, reviews David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America and Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. Hat tip.

Louis Menand,"Regrets Only," New Yorker, 29 September, reviews Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination and Trilling's and Geraldine Murphy's The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel.

Congratulations, below the fold, to historians as new MacArthur Fellows and Dartmouth's Best Teachers ...

Congratulations to Alex Ross and Nancy Siraisi who have been named MacArthur Fellows for 2008. Ross is the music critic at the New Yorker and author of The Rest is Noise. He also blogs at The Rest is Noise. Siraisi is a historian of medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The author of Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils, Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine, and History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning, she is retired from the faculty at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

Finally, congratulations to Paul Christesen, Marlene Heck, Allen Koop, P. David Lagomarsino, Walter Simons, James Tatum, and Roger Ulrich, who made the Dartmouth Review's list of"Dartmouth's Best Professors...". Hat tip.