A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Robert Kaiser reviews Benjamin Carp, The Great New York Fire of 1776
The social significance of the Harlem Globetrotters
The “new, new” social conservatives don’t care about neoliberalism economics or democracy
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
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