A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Kathryn Hughes reviews Emma Smith, Portable Magic: A History of books and their Readers
David Bell reviews Joan Wallach Scott, On the Judgment of History
How Roe “warped” America.
Molly Worthen on the changing M.B.A.
John Brown and the historical novel
The decline of liberal religion led to Christian nationalism
Teaching the Boston Tea Party through role playing
Do conservatives really believe in free speech?
Road tripping through Appalachia
Jill Lepore on the Alito draft leak
“My Old Kentucky Home.” And here.
Kenneth Woodward on the links between Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church
Dred Scott and the Alito draft leak
Wendell Berry taught him to preach