
A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Was Francis Fukuyama right about liberal democracy and the “end of history”?
Tom Nichols on that Trump-Zelinskyy Oval Office meeting. Jonathan Chait here.
Yoni Appelbaum on the Puritan origins of migration
Joshua Rothman reviews Judith Giesberg, Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
Barack Obama’s failed hope
Remembering Ida B. Wells
Jesse Tisch reviews Joseph Epstein’s memoir
Tom Lutz reviews Claire Hoffman’s Sister, Sinner:: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
The humanities as education for the soul
Thaddeus Stevens and government spending for racial equality
Brad Littlejohn reviews Anton Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation
Martin Luther and the German Peasant War