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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  December 26, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Prioritization often kills the liberal arts

Joan Didion, RIP. And here.

Careerism and the writing life

Book wrapt

The Godfather and The Godfather II as Christmas movies

Is teaching worth doing if students no longer read?

A “great divergence” in American life

Annotating the Declaration of Independence

Walter Lippmann, circa 1969

The Left needs to stop debunking myths and start telling its own stories.

The “Know Your Enemy” guys answer questions

The radicalism of Johnny Cash

What if is Socrates, Thomas Jefferson, and William Jennings Bryan met at a school board meeting?

The making of The Godfather

Norm McDonald

How is social media changing history?

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