A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Why is America at war over slavery?
What if the January 6 Committee issues a compelling report and nobody cares
What “Big History” overlooks
Can procrastination help your performance?
How should we edit the Constitution?
How make journalism a public good
Lewis Lapham on money and the American elites
Simon Lazarus reviews Akhil Amar’s The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
Italian Catholic priests don’t like Santa Claus
“It’s a Wonderful Life” and American history
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins reviews two new books on American liberalism.
Fiona Sampson reviews Joe Moshenka, Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton