Sunday night odds and ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

The problem with book reviewing

Are the culture wars still religious in nature?

Historians as contextualizers

Philip Gorski and Sam Perry talk about Christian nationalism

Are professors groomers?

“Relief for ladies” (abortion)

Gil Hodges

The American flag

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen reviews Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

Do we need a new narrative of mass shootings?

An 1892 lynching in Port Jervis, New York

Ethan Schrum reviews Ronald G. Musto, The Attack on Higher Education: The Dissolution of the American University

Garrett Epps critiques originalism

Drew Gilpin Faust reviews David Hackett Fischer,’s African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

Five books on the New York Mets

Timothy Egan reviews Bill McKibben’s The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon. Read an excerpt from McKibbon’s book here.

RECOMMENDED READING

Johann Neem “walks among the ruins” of the modern university What if we took the originalist interpretation of the Constitution to its logical endpoint? What it was like to be a Black man playing for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1960s? Ron DeSantis wrote a book about the founding fathers