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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  March 10, 2024

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

In praise of Churchill and FDR

Anna Kornbluh on our obsession with individualism.

The small group of White House staffers who prepared the way for Gerald Ford months before Nixon resigned.

A conference on campus civility.

Joe Biden’s last campaign

The Bancroft Prize winners.

Barry and Jerry in the 6th most conservative legislative district in the country.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 anti-Vietnam speech–and today.

“Angry middle-class warrior“: New York Times columnists rate Biden’s State of the Union address.

On Katie Britt’s State of the Union rebuttal.

Late 19-century women’s suffrage and race.

The 18th-century Donald Trump?

“Drawing historical parallels is an art, not a science.”

Tennis lessons from David Foster Wallace.

The Washington Post‘s non-fiction book critic.

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