A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Robert Caro is writing 900 words a day on the last installment of his LBJ biography. Caro’s writing shed here.
Caro and The Power Broker
“The Fantasy World of Baseball” (1964)
Are we in a writing renaissance?
Aram Goudsouzian reviews The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
John McWhorter on JD Vance
Mark Edmundson on fostering disagreement in the classroom
Thomas Chatterton Williams on Elon Musk
“The Catholic Right’s Celebrity-Conversion Industrial Complex“
Jelani Cobb’s on Trump’s visit to the National Association of Black Journalists convention
Robert Tsai reviews two new books on the Constitution.
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in context.
Changes to the Chicago Manual of Style
Do we need another World’s Fair?