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Sunday night odds and ends

  |  January 12, 2025

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

Rethinking care

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

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