A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Anti-elitist should not mean anti-education.
The moral wisdom of Joe Biden’s pardons
Should Trump erect an arch for the country’s 250th anniversary?
Sitting in empty churches
What was your first memory?
David Ruggles and the Underground Railroad
Marion Orr reviews David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life
Organs in church and church history
Revisiting Robert Caro’s The Power Broker
Jon Wiener and Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan’s Christmas songs
Michael Roth reviews Musa al Gharbi’s We’ve Never Been Woke and James Davison Hunter’s Democracy and Solidarity
Why are people leaving Massachusetts?
Chris Gehrz reviews Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age
The New-England Primer in context