Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things on-line that caught my attention this week:

Barbara Ehrenreich on the paradox of declining female happiness.

Bob Herbert on why baseball is no longer America’s democratic pastime.

John Calipari: Rock star in Lexington.

New Books in History

A case against blogging

Mark Peterson on the American Revolution in film.

Jon Stewart on the Al Franken anti-rape bill. Hilarious and sad at the same time.

Can wisdom be taught?

History Twitter feeds

Brendan McConville lecture on loyalists during the American Revolution.

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