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Sunday Night Odds and Ends

John Fea   |  November 17, 2008 Leave a Comment

The fate of public intellectuals

If you have not read it yet: Nicholas Kristof on Obama the intellectual.

Should Steve Jobs run GM? Thomas Friedman thinks so.

I don’t know whether this is hilarious or disturbing. Probably both.

E.J. Dionne on why Obama should address the issue of abortion early in his presidency

The Pew Forum on the religious vote in the 2008 presidential election.

Andrew Cayton reviews Jon Meacham’s American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Louis Masur reviews it here.

Boston 1775 calls our attention to some exciting new on-line resources from the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Did Catholics vote for Obama because they misread the Bishops’ statement on “Faithful Citizenship?” See here and here.

The empty lives of Obama supporters. (From the Onion).

Congratulations to Matt Sutton.

Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky have written a novel.

Chicago Tribune reviews John Demos’s The Enemy Within.

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