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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  April 7, 2024

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Can Biden go right and left at the same time?

When America was “begging richer allies for help“

Raymond Williams and hope

An administrator tells and English professor to do something about his face.

Liberalism

What is happening to small presses?

The legacy of slavery in the American South

The theology of social democracy

Can the liberal order be saved through illiberal means?

Colin Woodward reviews Richard Slotkin’s A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

Baylor’s “Harry Potter professor” blasts J.K. Rowling

How to stop in used-book stores

Boring books

Does America have a crisis of civic virtue?

Henry Louis Gates Jr. publishes his lectures.

Caitlin Clark will make $76,000 next year.

“Good coffee” is overrated

Presidents are dividers, not uniters.

Ben Franklin and libraries

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