A few things online that caught my attention this week:
George Scialabba reviews Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thoughts in the Cold War
Should Breyer retire?
Check marks and writing
Slavery and early Boston
The GOP is obsessed with critical race theory. More here.
U.S. Senators who died in duels
Adam Cohen reviews Akhil Reed Amar, The Worlds That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
Should you move back home?
Eldridge Cleaver of Black Panther fame had a Mormon phase
H.W. Brands reviews Annette Gordon-Reed On Juneteenth
Casey Chalk reviews Jeffrey Bilbro, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News
The infrastructure debate in historical context
Cancel culture and church discipline
Race and liberalism in Dr. Seuss