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?
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