A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Adam Smith reconsidered
Seventeenth-century Dutch Calvinist missionaries in Southeast Asia
Icebreakers on the first day of class
Who is Jay Caspian Kang?
Comparing the opposition to slavery and the opposition to abortion
W.E.B. Du Bois and Foreign Affairs
Jonathan Kellerman reviews Bryan Appleyard, The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World
Barbara Ehrenreich: She made “socialist ideas sound like common sense”
Ben Franklin and lightning
Black historians and presentism
David Ochinsky reviews Michael Tomasky, The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity
Book bans in Texas
Brown University’s Open Curriculum
Queen Elizabeth II and American women in the 1950s
Andrew Koppelman reviews Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents