A few things online that caught my attention this week:
The 1850s Black Convention movement
Kevin McCarthy joins the insurrection
Elizabeth Bruenig on Lent
Francis: the first Jesuit Pope
Rod Dreher’s last American Conservative blog post
Bob Smietana reviews Lerone Martin, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
Tish Harrison Warren on the “He Gets Us” ads
The end of capitalism?
An East African kingdom, Teddy Roosevelt, and American democracy
Kerri Greenridge reviews David Waldstreicher, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
Leslie Alexander wins the Pauli Murray Prize from the African American Intellectual History Society for her book Black Internationalism and Haiti
St. Augustine and Howard Thurman on anti-violence
Explaining Jehovah’s Witnesses
Navalny will not be at the Oscars
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)