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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  February 12, 2023 Leave a Comment

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Writers lives are “spent mainly in defeat“

Carole King on Burt Bacharach

The Black Hebrew Israelite movement

W.E.B. Du Bois on Black History Month

Whopper, Whopper, Whopper Whopper

History vs. literature. The Proctors of Salem

James Traub reviews Michael Walzer’s The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjectives

Teaching slavery at Harvard

Reggie Jackson

Fighting over gas stoves

When did Americans lose faith in the news?

A 7.5-foot-long iron sword found in Japan

Ed Simon reviews Abram Van Engen’s City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism

What readers hate about books

The Democratic National Committee passes a resolution against Christian nationalism

Fantasy football

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