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Sunday Night Odds and Ends

John Fea   |  January 12, 2009 Leave a Comment

A few things on the web that caught my eye this week:

Do you have “unblocked writers syndrome?”

Amy Frykholm calls our attention to Better World Books.

Mark Bauerlein makes sense here.

Stanley Fish invokes St. Augustine on the Blagojevich-Burris mess.

Damon Linker, the former editor of First Things, reflects on the death of Richard John Neuhaus.

Mark Altschuler reviews Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

Colbert I. King reflects on his role in the Eisenhower inauguration parade.

Who checks the spell-checkers?

Is Obama the next Cicero?

Marcus Rediker accepts the George Washington Prize for The Slave Ship: A Human History.

Are the The Founding Fathers to blame for the Bush presidency?

Is he back?

Patrick Allitt on tithing.

Eric Foner on the Obama-Lincoln comparison and Ronald White on what Lincoln would say to Obama as he prepares for his inauguration.

Sanford Levinson responds to William Hogeland’s essay on the National Constitution Center.

Hendrik Hertzberg on his visit to Covenant College.

Interesting essay on H.F. DuPont’s Winterthur.

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