A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Brian Rosenberg reviews Louis Menand’s review of Roosevelt Montas’s Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Thomas Chatterton Williams reviews Montas here.
John McWhorter on Sidney Poitier
There was no election fraud in Pennsylvania
Hans Boersma on pandemic fear
States are “failing” to teach the era of Reconstruction
Terry Teachout, RIP. And here.
Morten Høi Jensen reviews Andrew Sullivan’s recent collection of essays
Whatever you think about this piece on civility, the picture of Umberto Eco’s home office is worth the click
The Smithsonian’s secret storerooms
Compared to DeSantis, Trump seems sane on COVID-19
American evangelicals and martyrdom
The empty rhetoric of university slogans
Searching for a an enslaved ancestor
Ben Franklin on childhood inoculation