A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Thomas Frank reviews Jon Meacham’s The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
What happened to English Departments?
“The extent of the former president’s corruption may be too great for Americans to fathom”
Matthew Karp talks about his Harper’s essay “History as End”
Will evangelicals survive QAnon?
Max Holleran reviews Scott Borchert, Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America
Has an American renaissance begun?
Daina Ramey Berry on the meaning of emancipation
Vincent Cannato reviews Thomas Dyja, New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Democracy writes a new Constitution
Randall Stephens reviews Philip Jenkins’s Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
Is Substack a fan service?
Timothy Naftali reviews Kai Bird’s The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. Jeremi Suri review it here.
Alexander Hamilton is the villain of In the Heights
Who invented the conflict over critical race theory?
Does what happened this week at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting mean that evangelicals are turning-away from Trump?
