A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Should we abolish grades at American universities?
There are only two Shakers left.
“Our dopamine-driven brains drive us to choose cheap distraction over entertainment and art”
Elizabeth Catte reviews three books on poverty.
Now that J.D. Vance is Trump’s VP pick, some outlets are publishing new reviews of Hillbilly Elegy.
How do you know a Christian?
A new digital collection reveals the history of slavery in New York.
Wilfred McClay on “individualism“
John Adams’s January 6th moment
Ted Widmer reviews Lindsay Chervinsky, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
How to write a book
Stop using the word “navigate” as a metaphor
John Inazu on finding common ground
The Agrarian-Distributist roots of J.D. Vance’s politics
Black churches and politics in the 1960s.