Sunday night odds and ends

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

Edith Wilson

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)

RECOMMENDED READING

David Waldstreicher brings his “blunt intellectual style” to a biography of Phillis Wheatley LONG FORM: Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly The Author’s Corner with Leslie M. Alexander Found: A new Phillis Wheatley poem