A few things online that caught my attention this week:
A history of thinking on paper
Trump needs to remember that it’s not 2016 anymore.
Did the founders see this political moment coming?
1960 Olympians who tried to get Soviet athletes to defect.
J.D. Vance and ‘trad futurism“
Martin Luther King Jr. on human flourishing
History and memory on Boston’s Freedom Trail
The private life of James Baldwin
The 8th Lincoln Douglass debate
Historicizing J.D. Vance’s comments on “cat people” and “childless” presidents
Johnny Cash is heading to the U.S. Capitol
Does BLM’s statement on Kamala Harris signal the decline of identity politics?
Alexandra Jacobs reviews Evan Friss, The Bookshop: A History of American Bookstore. Michael Dirda reviews it here.
Are liberals to blame for J.D. Vance?
A regional leader of the United Auto Workers is not impressed with the GOP’s turn toward labor.
Michael Ignatieff on democracy and the election.