A few things online that caught my attention this week:
In Ukraine, the future is at stake. So is the past.
Smart people offer suggestions for fixing American democracy
Sitting Bull and the creation of Yellowstone National Park
Michael Roth reviews Colette Brooks, Trapped in the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory
“A fair account of history needs to do more than catalogue sins.”
Richard Gamble reviews Eric Adler, The Battle of the Classics
Do we need a new way of talking about race.
David Roediger reviews Adam John Waterman, The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War
We need local news
Joseph Epstein’s generic commencement address
Lewis Lapham interviews Roosevelt Montas, author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Brooks Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a terrible military leader
Jason Sokol reviews Adolph Reed, The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives