A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Charles Arrowsmith reviews Peter Moore’s Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream
Jill Lepore on how to save the Constitution.
Aram Goudsouzian reviews Samuel G. Freedman, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Jonathan Levy reveiws Glory M. Liu, Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
Democratic socialist elected officials gather.
Michael Honey reviews Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life
The history behind “Affirmative Action”
On reading back issues of the NRA’s The American Rifleman magazine.
David Blight reviews Rachel Swarns’s The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
Free tuition at Hope College
Historian Martha Hodes discusses her hijacking.
Ross Douthat reviews Patrick Deneen’s Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.