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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  July 25, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Plumber Jones and Professor Cowen

Black celebrity intellectuals

A Netflix show on the university

Emmett Till

Agnes Howard reviews Philippa Koch, The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America

The failure of authority in the age of Trump and the state of The New York Times

How anti-racist is Ibram X Kendi’s anti-racism?

Is Fox News legally responsible for COVID-19 deaths?

Andrew Bacevich reviews Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

What made Babe Ruth such a phenomenon?

The failure of Civil War piece talks

Jennifer Martin reviews Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

What can we learn today from Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.?

Christian Olympians

How to read great books

What does the University of Iowa have against Inter VarsityChristian Fellowship?

Scholarly autobiography

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