A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Would J.D. Vance join a UAW picket line outside a Tesla factory?
Goodbye J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, David Foster Wallace, and Harper Lee?
A pro-lifer to Trump: “Why have you abandoned us?
Jon Zobenica reviews John Ganz,’s When the Clock Broke: Con Men Conspiracists, and How America Cracked-Up in the Early 1990s.
David Brooks offers advice to Democrats in the wake of the GOP convention.
C.S. Lewis and Isis Murdoch on intentional humility
United Auto Workers president Sean Fain vs. Donald Trump
John McWhorter wonders why Democrats are speaking “ancient Greek.”
How J.D. Vance and America have changed since Hillbilly Elegy.
Harper’s tackles evangelical exorcisms
Violence against Louisiana Italians in the late 19th century.
The GOP is now the party of Pat Buchanan.
Historical narratives of Appalachia. And here.
Evangelicals want Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race