A few things online that caught my attention this week:
George Will on Doug Mastriano
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America
P.T. Barnum on the dangers of alcohol
Lewis Lapham interviews Kermit Roosevelt III, author of The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story
Inflation during the Civil War
Shofars and Christian nationalism
Trump, QAnon, and the religious right
E.J. Dionne reviews Jedidiah Purdy, Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy is Flawed, Frightening–And Our Best Hope
American history with Native people and Native power at the center
The National Archives tackles sports