A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Jonathan Haidt and others are winning the battle over smartphones in school.
Are graduate students in history doing sloppy work?
Why did Jimmy Carter choose “Imagine.”
The Muslims who fought in the American Civil War
The “genuflection of billionaires“
Jurgen Habermas on hope and Christianity
Michael Meranze reviews David Rabban, Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right
Is it time for historians to return to the archives?
Niall Ferguson says he was wrong about Trump
Jimmy Carter and James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Catholic social teaching and egalitarianism
Thinking historically about information overload
Does teaching writing have a future?
Tom Zoellner reviews Brian VandeMark, Kent State: An American Tragedy