A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Daniel K. Finn reviews Benjamin M. Friedman’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
A conservative Washington Post columnist calls Kevin McCarthy a demagogue
Hanging out with The Eagles on the “Hotel California” tour
The dark side of amusement parks
Jennifer Howard reviews John B. Thompson, Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Is it time to mess with Texas?
It’s hard to live at 1.5X speed
Alan Taylor on the history of Thomas Jefferson’s university
Why has the Christian Right been so quiet about Texas’s new abortion law?
Is nonpartisan engagement possible?
How the press covered the Texas abortion law
Michael Kazin on how the ideals of the American founding have combatted white supremacy
“Contraband” and slavery
Will human rights cease to define U.S. foreign policy?
A speech by the former president of BYU is shaking-up the Church of the Latter Day Saints
Going “over” to the Jersey shore
DeNeen Brown reviews Robert Levine’s The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
