A few things online that caught my attention this week:
The influence of Roger Scruton on conservatism.
Leah Finnegan reviews Ben Smith, Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral.
How to rig an election: 1876 style.
Four approaches to writing the history of our time.
How Sarah Georgini edits the Adams papers.
What has Black Lives Matter accomplished?
George Will likes the new changes to baseball.
David Brooks on Jean Twenge’s book Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents–and What They Mean for America’s Future.
R.R. Reno on “The Future of Christianity“
Chad Williams talks about W.E.B. Du Bois and World War I.
Harvey Mansfield’s last class.
Adolph Reed on race reductionism.
Adam Hochschild on Hillsdale’s 1776 Curriculum and the 1619 Project.
The 1741 New York City slave revolt.
The women who got Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” on the Statue of Liberty.
The Twenge link goes to the book rather than the David Brooks piece.