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Sunday night odds and ends

  |  November 20, 2022

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Three cheers for university presses

A former Bob Jones University student in the wake of the attempted fundamentalist coup

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

Former Christian Right leader Rob Schenck continues to whistleblow

Old books

David Hajdu reviews Bruce Springsteen’s “pointless” new album

Virginia’s Confederate monuments

Paul Putz reviews Daniel Scott Smith’s Strength for the Fight: The Life and Faith of Jackie Robinson

What is Mastadon?

James Chappel reviews John McGreevy, Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, Kevin Hart reviews it here.

Are conservative intellectuals anti-intellectual?

Debunking Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse

Alice Roosevelt (Teddy’s daughter). And here.

Austerity and capitalism

Anthea Butler reviews the Hulu documentary on Jerry Falwell Jr.

American Historical Association president James Sweet on “grief, goodness, and history“

Neal Gabler on Ted Kennedy’s role in the rise of American conservatism

Why do archives get rid of things?

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