A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Dominic Green reviews Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past. Lewis Lapham interviews Cohen here
Caitlin Flanagan on the trail of Joan Didion
George Will offers the mayor of Miami as the next GOP presidential candidate
Ronald Reagan’s daughter talks about her father’s view of abortion
Richard Nixon and the New York Mets
Covering the Pennsylvania primary
Ethan Allen and “familial self-preservation”
A history of pizza
How agrarian immigrant radicals in Texas shaped U.S. rural socialism
The friendship of T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx
What Americans did before baby formula
Yale law professor Akhil Amar, a pro-choice Democrat, thinks Alito’s Roe decision is right
Priya Satia reviews Jeff Nussbaum, Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
Remembering baseball writer Roger Angell
What can the U.S. Civil war teach us about how to deal with COVID-19 death
Terry Eagleton on being a public intellectual
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