A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen reviews two new book on failure.
When you find out that your church was part of the slave trade.
Stephen Brumwell reviews Brady J. Crytzer’s The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis
Matt McManus reviews Michael Walzer, The Struggle for Decent Politics.
Gregory Kirsch reviews Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living.
Is higher education a “cut-price assembly line?“
Has the lottery replaced hope?
Policing abortion in the 19th century.
Should Cornel West challenge Biden in the 2024 Democratic Party primaries?
Abolitionists and the American flag.
The geography of gun violence in America.
Cormac McCarthy and American history.
Ned Blackhawk on “The Rediscovery of America”