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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  August 1, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

What the founding fathers feared

We all need more “radical humility“

Can a history lesson change an insurrectionist?

Can Catholic social teaching contribute to a renewed democratic culture?

Book piles

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates talk about the backlash to the 1619 Project

The politics of crisis

Rick Atkinson reviews Julie Flavell, The Howe Dynasty

Anti-vaxxers in the 1920s

Michael Kazin reviews David Talbot and Margaret Talbot, By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution

Tennis

“Fables of the sick anti-vaxxer“

Johann Neem reviews Steven B. Smith, Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes

The secret passageway under The Lion House in Columbus, Georgia

Cherry-picking from the evangelical past

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