A few things that caught my eye this week:
Mother Jones photo essay on consumerism and 2007 Bill McKibben essay on consumerism and patriotism.A moving story of good will during the Great Depression.
John Feinstein on the EagleBank Bowl.
Any Sesame Street buffs? A new journalistic history.
FDR vs. Reagan
E.J. Dionne on the Jesus of Christmas
Jean Yarbrough reviews Joshua David Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness
New York Times/BloggingHeadTV debate over Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to pray at the inaugural.
Should Obama appoint a “Secretary of Culture” to his cabinet? William Ferris thinks so.
Samuel Huntington, R.I.P.
The loss of maritime life for the Chesapeake Bay watermen.
A new history of the Great Books.
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