Modern History Notes

Larry Kramer,"Yale's Conspiracy of Silence," Daily Beast, 24 April, lays out the activist's grievances with the University's handling of gay & lesbian studies.

Kevin Murphy,"U. S. History for Dummies," Ghost in the Machine, 22 April, offers a primer for tea parties.

Barron H. Lerner,"Gather 'Round the Cadaver," Slate, 24 April, Elizabeth Redden,"Photographic History of Human Dissection," IHE, 29 April, and Abigail Zuger,"Snapshots From the Days of Bare-Hands Anatomy," NYT, 27 April, review John Harley Warner's and James M. Edmonson's Dissection, a book of photographs of 19th and 20th century medical students and their cadavers.

Louis Begley,"Before the Law," TNR, 6 May, reviews Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner, eds., Franz Kafka: The Office Writings.

Michael Dirda,"The Man Within," WS, 4 May, reviews Richard Greene, ed., Graham Greene: A Life in Letters.

Ronald Steel,"Ronald Reagan, Revised," Washington Post, 26 April, reviews James Mann's The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War.

Finally, Niall Ferguson announces his near unprecedented agreement with Paul Krugman, calling on the federal government to place Citigroup and Bank of America in conservatorship.