Things on the web that caught my eye this week:
Stanley Fish on the (positive) legacy of George W. Bush
Alan Brinkley on why our current economic crisis resembles the 1930s.
NY Times Book Review: Jonathan Freedland reviews Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded and Eric Foner reviews Annette Gordon Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello
Is a vote for Obama “severe moral schizophrenia?”
What a great idea. Over at Amerian Creation Eric Alan Isaacson describes his family vacation to “America’s Founding Churches.”
So what does a Vice-President do anyway? Cornell law professor Josh Chatetz explains that neither Biden or Palin do not seem to have a clue.
Catholics, abortion, and the presidential election. I have been reading a very relevant book on this topic: Vincent Rougeau, Christians in the American Empire: Faith and Citizenship in the New World Order (Oxford, 2008). I hope to blog on this book when I finish it. More on abortion and the election here.
More on Palin’s pentecostalism.
Michael Novak reviews John O’Malley’s What Happened at Vatican II in the Washington Post.
Did Warren G. Harding coin the term “Founding Fathers?” Boston 1775 explains.
The Vincent D. Rougeau book sounds really interesting. I look forward to your thoughts on it. I wonder if Prof. Rougeau would be interested in conversing on the blog about it–in an interview or just comments?