More Modern History Notes

Nicholas Dames,"Why Bother?" n+1, Spring, reviews Terry Castle's The Professor and Other Writings, Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, and Martha Nussbaum's Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities.

Jed Perl,"A Room of One's Own," TNR, 13 April, reviews"Rooms With a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century," an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ellen Handler Spitz,"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," The Book, 13 April, reviews Simon Winchester's The Alice Behind Wonderland.

Rian Malan,"Without a Savior," bookforum, Apr/May, reviews R. W. Johnson's South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid, Peter Godwin's The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe and Stephen Chan's Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits.

Niall Ferguson Update:

Niall Ferguson,"'History has never been so unpopular'," Guardian, 29 March;

____________,"Murder on the EU Express," Newsweek, 3 April;

____________,"The Mash of Civilizations," Newsweek, 10 April;

Decca Aitkenhead,"Niall Ferguson: 'The left love being provoked by me ... they think I'm a reactionary imperialist scumbag'," Guardian, 11 April.