A few things online that caught my attention this week:
David French on MAGA America
Richard Price: 18th-century dissenter
A defense of the Cornel West presidential candidacy
Culture wars, bipartisanship, and our understanding of the American Revolution
Alan Jacobs on Thomas Pynchon as “America’s theologian”
Allen Guelzo reviews Joshua Seitz, Lincoln’s God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation
The hottest days in world history
Historian Lois Banner imagines what her career would have looked like if she were black. The Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians apologizes.
Sam Pollard and Black baseball
Is American really ready for its 250th birthday?
Why Rachel Swarns, author of The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church, still goes to mass.