A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Arts and Letters Daily is featuring Current‘s best little magazine articles from 2024 roundup.
David French, an evangelical, chats with Jonathan Rauch, an atheist about the religion and democracy
Michael Dirda reviews Paula Frederickson, Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years
Daniel James Sundahl reviews Allen Guelzo, Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
Climate change and the liberal arts
Ed Simon reviews Orlando Reade, What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
The “Lost Cause” Christmas myth
Kim Phillips-Fein reviews David Montgomery, A David Montgomery Readers: Essays on Capitalism and Worker Resistance
Jonathan Roumie on playing Jesus
It was only a matter of time before First Things published a response to Paul Kingsnorth’s Erasmus Lecture.
Marion Orr reviews David Greenberg’s John Lewis: A Life
Caitlin Flanagan on her relationship with Irish poet Seamus Heaney
Hey Andrew Sullivan, why don’t you tell us what you really think about “wokeness.” 🙂
Politics, history, and J.G.A. Pocock