A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Historian Peter Brown’s 700 page memoir. And here. And here.
E.J. Dionne: Trump’s indictment is “imperative for justice”
Did Martha Washington have a Black grandson?
Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
Chris Licht, Brian Stelter, and Chuck Todd
Frederick Douglass and abolitionist community of Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
Jefferson Cowie reviews Paul Kix, You Have to be Preparared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
Hayden White: a “theorist of the writing of history”
Private beaches and Jim Crow
Conservatives and masculinity
Jennifer Szalai reviews Patrick Deneen, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future. More on Deneen here.
Ken Woodward on Pat Robertson
The National Review: “The Trump indictment is damning”
It is unconstitutional to fire a professor of his “left-wing views”
Tim Riley reviews Warren Zanes, Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska”