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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  July 31, 2022 Leave a Comment

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

John Loughery reviews David Kertzer’s The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

Rick Perlstein on the long backlash against teaching progress in public schools

Aaron Stauffer reviews Gary Dorrien’s American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory

An “alternative history” of the C-SPAN archives

Frank Guan reviews Phillipa K. Chong, Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times

The financial aid sham

When cars were “dangerous intruders“

On paragraphs

In defense of New Deal public works projects

Social media is undermining democracy

Is social media really hurting academia?

Normal Lear on Archie Bunker and Donald Trump

What digital subscriptions have done to journalism

Michael Hattem on the memory of the American Revolution

Enslaved women and maternal resistance

Some historical context on Pope Francis’s trip to Canada to apologize for what happened in Indigenous boarding schools

Pro-life and anti-Trump? How does one deal reconcile the two in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson?

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