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Tim Rutten reviews Mark Lamster's Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens for the LA Times, 2 December.
John Barnard, "Who killed John Keats?" TLS, 2 December, poses a new theory about the poet's death.
Mary...
From the blogs:
Garry Wills, "Afghanistan: The Betrayal," NYRblog, 2 December, declares his alienation from Obama's leadership. Hat tip.
Michael Tomasky's "Cornel West among the crickets," 2 December, pays due tribute to Scott McLemee's "Decline of...
As Ralph noted yesterday, I've written an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about trying to find ways to teach to the experience of seeing UC Berkeley students get treated like criminals by armed and armored riot police for peacefully...
Michael Dirda, "His reign: Far from plain," Washington Post, 3 December, reviews Jenny Uglow's A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game.
Jill Lepore, "Prexisting Condition," New Yorker, 7 December, looks at 20th century American health care...
History Carnival LXXXII is up at The Lay Scientist.
David W. Blight, "‘He Knew How to Die': John Brown on the Gallows, December 2, 1859," HNN, 30 November, Tony Horwitz, "The 9/11 of 1859," NYT, 1 December, and David S. Reynolds, "Freedom's...
