A few things online that caught my attention this week:
George Packer visits Phoenix
Regina Munch reviews Nathan Perl-Rosenthal’s The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It.
What does J.D. Vance believe?
Magna Carta in America
Mattie Kahn reviews Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer, The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America.
Gertrude Himmelfarb and the historian’s craft
Victor Ray reviews Andrew Kahrl, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
Eric Herschthal reviews Manisha Sinha’s The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.
Robin Givhan reviews Nell Irvin Painter’s A Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays.
A bookstore in a Brooklyn living room