Sunday Night Odds and Ends

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

Fareed Zakaria: Greed is good. Pope Benedict’s forthcoming encyclical: Greed is bad.

Was the Great Siege of Gilbratar the most costly battle in the American Revolutionary War?

Religion in American History turns two.

Steven Miller on Billy Graham and the new Nixon tapes.

What do writers do all day?

Sarah Posner brings an end to her column, “The FundamentaList.”

David Nasaw reviews Jackson Lears’s Rebirth of a Nation.

Christopher Hitchens reviews Michael Burlingame’s Abraham Lincoln: A Life.

Interview with Johan Neem, author of Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts.

The Bible of baseball card collecting.

Just say no.

A homeschoolers’ football league.