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Friday, July 2, 2010

Around the Web

For Saturday, June 27 through Friday, July 2, 2010.

1) At Philosophy Now, Grant Bartley reviews a biography of Bertrand Russell,"Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth" by Apostolis Doxiadis et al.

2) Making dictionaries matter: Michael Adams on Samuel Johnson at Humanities.

3) Michael Dirda reviews a collection of the letters of Pliny the Younger for Barnes and Noble Review.

4) Michael J. Totten interviews Victor Davis Hanson to discuss "War: Ancient and Modern."

5) Jonathan Spence and NEH Chairman Jim Leach discuss key moments in four hundred years of Chinese history.

6) In The American, Lee Harris on "The Spirit of Independence and the Social Psychology of Freedom."

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