A few things online that caught my attention this week:
E.J. Dionne: “Europeans seem to grasp the threat to U.S. democracy better than we do.”
How Chris Rufo and company went after David Austin Walsh
Jonathan Malesic reviews Cal Newport’s Slow Productivity
Elizabeth Bruenig on Trump-as-Jesus memes
Tuscaloosa’s “Bloody Tuesday“
The U.S. cities with more parking lots than housing
Economic and political populism as quintessentially American
John Lewis Gaddis reviews Sergey Radchenko, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Power.
Harvard students want to throw John Winthrop off campus
The lure of the Northwest Passage
Is Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire relevant today?
A New York Times Magazine profile of Ibram X. Kendi
The “Racket Society“