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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  January 5, 2025

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Self-sabotage

The era of Taylor Swift

What is modernity?

Who benefits from identity politics?

Adam Hochschild reviews Brenda Wineapple, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation

Was Jimmy Carter a conservative?

When should majority rule?

There never was an Ivory Tower.

Why working-class Democrat voters stayed home in November 2024

Thomas Jefferson and the weather

Jennifer C. Berkshire reviews Adam Laats, Mr. Lancaster’s System: The Failed Reform That Created America’s Public Schools

The threat to nonprofits in historical context.

Should the Enlightenment be saved?

Ann de Frost reviews Paul Kahan’s Philadelphia: A Narrative History

Jimmy Carter: Author. And here.

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