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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  October 24, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Robert Nisbet on managerialism and the modern university

How will today’s students fall in love with a book?

The British Empire was built on slavery, and then antislavery.

The music of the Industrial Workers of the World

Lasch and Foucault on identity

Black biography matters

Matt Mazewski reviews Christine Firer Hinze, Radical Sufficiency: Work, Livelihood, and a U.S. Catholic Economic Ethic

An atheist reconsiders God in a pandemic

A Medieval Catholic nun on how to prepare for an abortion

Woody Holton talks the American Revolution

Newspapers have a civic mission to cover local news

Gravesite reenactments

James Baldwin reviews Alex Haley’s Roots…in 1976

The Catholic Church has remained consistent on vaccines

Canada’s history wars

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