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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  March 19, 2023

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Lincoln’s hair

Robert Kaiser reviews Benjamin Carp, The Great New York Fire of 1776

The local paper

The social significance of the Harlem Globetrotters

The “new, new” social conservatives don’t care about neoliberalism economics or democracy

An education glossary

Alan Jacobs on David Hume on social media

A conservative Catholic on what liberal Catholicism gets right

Rebecca Spang reviews two new books on capitalism and free markets

Thomas Chatterson Williams on “woke”

Jennifer Szalai reviews Matthew Dallek, Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

On Maggie Haberman

Revising history at the Victims of Communism Museum

Joseph Darda reviews Theresa Runstedtler’s Black Ball: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

Who was Rosie the Riveter?

Nick Offerman on Wendell Berry

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