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Sunday night odds and ends

  |  August 7, 2022

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Kevin Carey reviews Will Bunch, After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics

The roots of “Great Replacement” theory

Things left in books

Vin Scully: poet

Doing nothing

Organizing bookshelves

Rowan Williams reviews Karen Armstrong, Sacred Nature: How We Can Recover our Bond with the Natural World

Writing crossword puzzles

Shark attacks and political elections

Jordan Peterson vs. Karl Marx

Pastlessness

Robin D.G. Kelly’s Freedom Dreams at 20

Growing-up in the Bible Belt

Jazz and organized crime

Ross Douthat on the “new politics of abortion“

Is a political realignment American democracy’s only hope?

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