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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  June 19, 2022 Leave a Comment

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Baseball is changing

David Sedaris writes thank-you notes

Cornel West on pragmatism

Since Watergate it has become more difficult to hold president’s accountable

Harold Myerson reviews Gary Dorrien, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory

Journalism since Watergate: continuity and change

The Watergate hearings and the rise of PBS

Peter Sagal reviews Mark Clague’s O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of “The Star-Spangled Banner“

Nathan Robinson reviews Matt Walsh’s documentary “What is a Woman?”

“Know Your Enemy” tackles the Christian Right

Mikel Hill reviews Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia

Comparing 1860 secessionists to January 6th insurrectionists

American xenophobia

The art in the U.S. Capitol

“Monticello House Tour“

Ronald White reviews Jonathan White’s A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House

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The Dancing Children of Stalingrad Some brief reflections on “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” The GOP anti-Ukraine caucus FORUM: The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse

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