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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  May 8, 2022

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.

A family pilgrimage

John Brown and the historical novel

The decline of liberal religion led to Christian nationalism

Intellectual paperbacks

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

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