Thursday's Notes
W. A. Pannapacker,"How to Procrastinate like Leonardo da Vinci," CHE, 20 February, recommends a more creative procrastination than my own.
Matthew Gurewitsch,"Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt's Shadow," Smithsonian, March, reviews"Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered," an exhibit on tour in the United States and currently at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Andrew Koppelman,"Naked Strong Evaluation," Dissent, Winter, reviews Charles Taylor's A Secular Age.
David Grann,"Finding the Lost City," Boston Globe, 22 February, is excerpted from Grann's The Lost City of Z. It features the quest of British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett for the remains of ancient civilization in the Amazon basin. Fawcett may have been less delusional than we once thought.
Andrew Delbanco,"A New Day for Intellectuals," CHE, 24 February, asks whether we've put distance between ourselves and the tradition outlined by Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.
Ruth Gledhill,"Bishop Williamson and David Irving party together," Articles of Faith, 24 February, reproduces e-mail in which David Irving counsels the holocaust-denying British Roman Catholic Bishop against the extremity of his claims.
Connor Clarke,"America Invented Everything," Washington, 25 February, fact-checks a couple of President Obama's rhetorical claims on Monday evening and finds them mistaken. Hat tip.