A few things online that caught my attention this week:
In praise of Barnes & Noble
Is liberalism worth saving?
Arthur Brooks: “happiness revolutionary”
Camille Davis reviews Bruce Ragsdale, Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery
A Catholic theologian explains Pope Francis’s recent remarks about LGBTQ people
Tony Perkins and Anurima Bhargava: Unlikely friendO
On those who don’t read books
The 1619 Project docuseries. Historian Peniel Joseph reviews it here.
The Sears catalog
An upstate New York village devoted to books
Enslaved Black people who stayed in the Southern slaveholding states
Revolutionary-era names
Frank Pavone and the “totalizing tendencies” of the pro-life movement
Daniel Dreisbach on Howard Chandler Christy’s painting “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States” (1940)
A conference on Howard Thurman