A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Claudia Wallis reviews Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars:A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession
Writing in the “in-between” spaces
The history of rock stars
Daniel McCarthy reviews David Bromwich’s The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
Who invented the ice bucket challenge?
God in the hands of an angry people
Country musicians talk about Springsteen
The burning of Washington D.C.–August 1814
A $150 million biblical theme park
The Smithsonian wants you to help transcribe its collections
David Swartz gives some advice to college freshmen about mystery and the liberal arts
More on the disconnect between evangelicals and the GOP
Treasures in little historical society museums
The “Eagle Map of the United States”
L.D. Burnett on fundamentalists and bus ministry
John, thanks much for the link.
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