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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  November 14, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Why is an image of Wheaton College atop this piece on “failed conservative ” and “right-wing breakaway” colleges.

The Anti-Racist movement as a “counterproductive religion‘

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tony Judt

Were Robert Moses’s bridges racist?

“Slavery is our history, but it is not our roots”

Fast food and Black capitalism

Differences in the GOP

Communicating ideas through the spoken word.

Mark Greif reviews Robert Gross, The Transcendalists and Their World

Build Back Better and the legacy of Ronald Reagan

Defending “Bible Belt Religion.“

The GOP and threats of violence

David Waldstreicher reviews two new books on the Constitution.

The narcissism of Aaron Rodgers

Elizabeth Varon reviews Noah Feldman, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America

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