A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Culture warriors–on the left and the right–don’t know much about what happens in history classrooms.
Enchantment and the future of the humanities.
Jonathan Teubner reviews Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History.
New Hampshire does away with old anti-Catholic laws.
Joseph Epstein is writing his autobiography.
Are we coddling undergraduates?
A critique of David Frum’s attempt to rehabilitate Woodrow Wilson.
Have the liberal arts gone conservative?
Lawrence Rosenwald reviews James Marcus, Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Nikole Hannah Jones on the “‘Colorblindness” Trap”
A Valparaiso University graduate on capitalism’s war on the liberal arts.
The Irish and America’s first migrant crisis.
Timothy Larsen reviews Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis.
Huckleberry Finn with Jim at the center.
Pope Francis: A “regular guy”