Sunday night odds and ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Dwight Garner reviews Jared Kushner’s “soulless” memoir. But is it a “hit piece?”

One of the North Andover middle schoolers on her work in “ending witchcraft” in Salem.

David Brooks on Frederick Buechner

The end of the U.S. Constitution?

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen reviews Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life.

Prayer

Steve Bannon’s providentialism

A conservative challenges “national conservatism” at First Things

Alan Jacobs on the politics of personal destruction.

Insights from the papers of Eugene Debs.

Edna Bonhomme reviews Farah Jasmine Griffin’s Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature.

Fan mail.

American decline.

Karen Sandstrom reviews Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

What social studies teachers are teaching.

Was American democracy built to be democratic?

RECOMMENDED READING

Eugene Debs: “We never hear of Capital Day, not because Capital has no day, but because every day is Capital Day.” When Eugene Debs eulogized John Brown FORUM: The War on Book Reviews