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Sunday nights odds and ends

John Fea   |  May 9, 2021

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

Bookstores

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

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