A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Why do conservatives hate theory?
The persistence of Russian nationalism
Tali Farhadian Weinstein reviews John Wood Sweet’s The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
Race, class, and Italian Americans
Philip Gorski reviews Matteo Bortolini, A Joyfully Series Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
What if Harriett Miers was confirmed?
Johann Neem reviews David Sehat, This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism
Nostalgia for the “glory days” of Michigan football
Daniel Gullotta reviews David S. Brown, The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson
The history of ice cream
Brad East reviews Stanley Hauerwas, Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth
Fugitive slave laws and abortion
Kathryn Gin Lum on “heathenism“