A few things online that caught my attention this week:
David Brooks on stupidity
Steven Mintz on the struggle between populism and progressivism
Siva Vaidhyanathan reviews Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation
David Brooks on stupidity
In Latin America, the prosperity gospel is replacing liberation theology.
Alex Coe reviews Andrew Lawler, A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution
Slavery at an 18th-century house
Harvard cuts staff rom its Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program.
E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class
The history of the anti-vaccination movement
Geraldine Brooks reflects on her marriage to historian and writer Tony Horowitz