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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  December 3, 2023

A few things online that caught my attention this week

3 books on the therapeutic mindset

Sandra Day O’Connor, RIP. And here.

Five books to read about Sandra Day O’Connor.

What is the value of the humanities?

The world’s only ventriloquism museum

Do poor West Virginians deserve the humanities?

How American librarians helped defeat Hitler.

Bronwen Everill reviews Katlyn Marie Carter’s Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions

Max Edling on the fifty years between the Boston Tea Party and the Monroe Doctrine

Bayard Rustin the BIOPIC vs. Bayard Rustin the labor activist.

A Harvard English professor will teach a course on Taylor Swift

Drew Gilpin Faust asks (in the context of the story of John Brown): “When is violence justified?“

Jennifer Szalai reviews Tim Alberta, The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Icaria

What is happening to Sports Illustrated?

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