From CT, a review of The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark Noll; and a review of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War by Chandra Manning. Sarah Arrr! of Zinetopia is a sell-out to the internet; she apologizes in advance for that. Michael Gorra reviews Cynthia Ozick's Dictation: A Quartet. The Emir of NYU: NYU president John Sexton has been promised a blank check to duplicate his university on a desert island in Abu Dhabi. An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon's days are numbered; worse, the growing influence of English is apparently to blame. In light of the recently burst housing bubble and the resulting inflation, this renter is having a hard time maintaining sympathy for borrowers who went in over their heads. Meteorites not only did in dinosaurs, some scientists suggest, but may also explain other phenomena. An excerpt from James V. Schall's The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking. The introduction to Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse. A review of Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America’s Future by Geoffrey Perret. Is the Renaissance scholar dead? Adrian Monk and AC Grayling debate.
