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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  October 3, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

What is scholarship does not have political relevance?

What happened to a Brooklyn high school basketball star and novelist?

Alan Jacobs reviews Jonathan Franzen’s new novel.

The Claremont Institute is preparing for civil war.

Classical architecture at the University of Virginia and Donald Trump.

Pope Francis on the unfinished work of Vatican II

Are Leftists turning on Foucault?

What is happening to the Pulaski Yankees?

Andrew Burstein reviews Joseph Ellis, Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents

What is history?

Ibram X. Kendi got a MacArthur Foundatiion “genius grant.” Does he need the money?

Arizona Senator Kristin Sinema once wrote a “manifesto” on compromise.

What should we do with “articles of history from a difficult past?”

The anti-maskers of 1847

Books about books

Counting votes in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

David Goldfield reviews Allen Guelzo’s Robert E. Lee: A Life.

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