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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  October 8, 2023

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

How did Israel not see it coming?

What is going on at The Wall Street Journal?

The revolutionary-era treasure of Hell’s Gate, NYC

Drew Gilpin Faust: Civil rights activist

The 18th-century roots of identity politics.

David Brooks: Biden is our best hope right now.

J.J. Porter reviews Patrick Deneen, Regime Change: Toward Postliberal Future. Jeffrey Isaac reviews it here.

Not everyone likes the new changes to Major League Baseball.

Scholars discuss Samuel Moyn’s Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.

Eugene V. Debs: republican

Eating in a Cold War fallout shelter

Agressive small-town newspapers

Trump as Constantine, Pope Francis as the barbarian invaders

Utopias

Do we need a rural New Deal?

The “conscience of baseball” retires

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