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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  May 12, 2024

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Left burnout

Pamela Paul on Glenn Loury. John McMillan on Loury here.

What is “diversity”?

Dad jokes

“Democracy Refreshed“

A “post-religious right?”

“…too educated to return to his life as a sailor, yet too disgusted by the upper classes to live among them”

A really interesting piece on the divisions on the Orthodox Church’

Michael Dirda reviews two books by Joseph Epstein.

Jelani Cobb, the Dean of Columbia School of Journalism, on the student protests at Columbia.

Alexis Cole reviews Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War.

Conservatives discuss “pro-life politics after Dobbs.”

Wilfred McClay on the use of the word “like.”

Literary critic Ron Charles on South Dakota governor Kristi Noem’s new memoir.

Political historians on Watergate

Jennfer Szalai reviews Nell Irvin Painter, I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays.

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