Thanksgiving Notes

Mark Bauerlein and KC Johnson have commonly used the term"group think" in reference to contemporary academic communities. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow,"Group think," Boston Globe, 23 November, explores whether technology and the internet contribute to or cause it.

George Brock,"The End of Journalism," TLS, 26 November, reviews Robert Fox, ed., Eyewitness to History, a four volume anthology of journalism, from Herodotus to BlackBerries and blogs.

Mervyn Rothstein,"The Circle of Life with Bagels," NYT, 25 November, reviews Maria Balinska's The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread.

Abram Van Engen,"The Good, the Bad, and the Puritans," Books & Culture, November/December, reviews Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates.

London's Natural History Museum lets you track Charles Darwin's 1831-1836 voyage on the HMS Beagle. Hat tip.

Sandra Laville,"History's missing pages," Guardian, 21 November, reports on £400,000 in damage done to rare books in the British and the Bodleian libraries by Farhad Hakimzadeh, an Iranian-born and MIT- and Harvard-educated businessman, publisher and intellectual.

Jackie Kemp,"Tartan and home truths," Guardian, 25 November, identifies controversies stirred by Edinburgh University's new center for the study of the Scottish diaspora. Hat tip.

Christopher Hitchens,"The new anti-Semitism?" TLS, 19 November, reviews Denis MacShane's Globalizing Hatred: The New Antisemitism.