Sunday night odds and ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Heather Cox Richardson: “The Fight for Our America“

Vladimir Putin’s view of history

Shohei Othani’s 2023 season

New stained-glass windows in Washington National Cathedral

The inspiration for Uncle Tom

50,000 people are buried under San Francisco

Scholars and academic publishers unite!

Rick Reilly on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

Oliver Traldi reviews Yascha Mounk, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Own Time

Nicholas Kristof on unions.

Hannah Gurman reviews Sohrab Ahmari, Tyranny Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–and What to Do About It.

Sabbath is still a radical idea.

Has our “civic bargain” failed?

Matthew Delmont reviews Dylan Pennington’s Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Two Ford’s Theatre tickets from that fateful April night in 1865.

The genius of the Beach Boys

Scarcity

Two new books on the working class

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