A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Robert McCoy reviews Brenda Wineapple’s Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation.
How the internet is remaking us.
Sara Georgini reviews William E. Leuchtenburg’s Patriotic Presidents from George Washington to John Quincy Adams.
Joe Biden’s “interrupted presidency“
Garry Wills on how the Supreme Court’s recent decision on presidential immunity “betrayed claims of originalism“
A socialist economist on Kamala Harris’s economic plan.
George Scialabba reviews two books on free will.
What is the difference between academic freedom and free speech?
The guys at “Know Your Enemy” podcast revisit J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.
Matt McManus reviews John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
Her mother cared more about “fomenting a socialist revolution than raising her child.”
David Blight reviews Gregory Downs and Anthony Kaye, Nat Turner: Black Prophet
Films about the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago