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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  September 12, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

The Baffler addresses efforts to rehab liberalism

The culture wars are an “elite device”

Can social media be politically productive?

A history of the index

McWhorter: Systemic racism exists. Now what do we do about it?

The Pittsburgh Courier

Karen Swallow Prior on the Texas abortion law

Agnes Howard reviews Philippa Koch, The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America

Why are young men giving-up on college?

The manager of the restaurant on the top floor of the World Trade Center

Appeals to history as a “virtuous magistrate“

Rethinking Carrie Nation

Mike Lindell apparently had dinner with Trump on the day he was supposed to be “reinstated”

Daniel Fryer reviews Randall Kennedy’s Say it Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture.

“This is America, Charlie Brown”

A historian listens and learns on Twitter

Lara Freidenfelds reviews Kristy Slominksi, Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States

Women and Pentecostalism

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