A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Simone Weil: “decreationist“
An New York Times editor on what she learned about slavery in her 1960s history class. It’s not what you might expect.
Female war correspondentes in the 1890s.
John Lewis saved the March on Washington.
Jewish homesteaders in North Dakota.
The legacy of Huey Newton.
The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution responds to the institution’s “racial brain collection.”
Liberalism is under seige.
Should progressives listen to “Rich Men North of Richmond”? And what the author of the song thought about it getting airtime at the first GOP debate.
Dissent tackles neo-liberalism.
Nikki Haley won the first GOP debate–hands down.
How far can Adrian Vereule, Patrick Deneen, and Sohrab Amari take us? And here.
The history of counting.
Rebel: the revolutionary dog.
Ralph Nader just started a newspaper.
Jill Lepore’s new book of essays.
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