A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Are Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen, and Gladdin Pappin engaged in a what H.R. McMaster once called “strategic narcissism”?
The conservative activism of Clarence and Ginni Thomas
David Brooks: Trump must be defeated
Marjoleine Kars reviews Laura F. Edwards, Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
When intellectuals write novels
Michael Kazin on why Democrats can’t get anything done
Henry Ward Beecher and forgiving the Confederacy
Wendell Berry is still alive and still writing
The Russia-Ukraine history wars
Critiquing the personal essay
Does the Bible forbid tattoos?
Lewis Lapham talks with Andrew J. O. Shaughnessy about The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University
Are book blurbs effective?