A few things online that caught my attention this week:
The New York Times on the attack on Donald Trump
Todd Shy reviews Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis. Linden K. Smith reviews it here.
Regionalism and the 1924 Immigration Act
Rick Perlstein on Project 2025 in historical perspective
The New York Times book review lists “The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century”
A short history of the college application essay.
Samuel Moyn on presidential gerontocracy
Richard Kreitner reviews Robert W. Merry, Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
Anabaptists as revolutionaries
Historian Sean Wilentz calls the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision “The Dred Scott of Our Time“
Is Robert Purnam’s Bowling Alone still relevant?
The KKK and the 1924 presidential conventions
Johann Neem reviews Ashley Rogers Berner, Educational Pluralism and Democracy