A few things online that caught my attention this week:
When the United States dabbled in hippo farming.
Why the founding fathers loved the classics
Susan Sontag on independent thinking
Democrats who want Trump to win the GOP nomination
Robert Caro and his editor
The “meltdown” at CNN
Bedford New York’s new Catholic classical school
Aaron Gwyn reviews Sam W. Haynes, Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, The Struggle for Texas
Deadspin is gone. Defector is here.
Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was the “least bad option“
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Pope Francis is well ahead of the Democratic Party on climate change.
On Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture