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Sunday night odds and ends

  |  May 19, 2024

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Daniel Schillinger reviews occasional Current writer Anton Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation.

Maureen Dowd on Bill Maher

Has “heterodoxy” become its own orthodoxy?

Addicted to Scrabble

Dennis Kucinich is back

Faith-based healthcare in Appalachia

Robert Sullivan on Civil War-era photographer of the American West Timothy O’Sullivan.

What Ross Douthat gets wrong about liberal Catholicism.

“Playing catch is an endless conversation”

A visit to Branson, Missouri

The Loch Ness Monster

Ben Burgis reviews Mark Robert Rank, The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World.

The positive case for Joe Biden

Jeet Heer reviews Marty Peretz’s The Controversialist

Should we rename the Democratic Party?

Michael McDonald of Doobie Brothers fame has written a memoir.

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