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Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  March 9, 2025

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Not everyone at Howard University is happy Ibram X. Kendi is coming.

Against “scholactivism”

Ben Franklin and climate change

Martha Nussbaum

Udi Greenberg reviews The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire

The Age of Vladimir Putin

Is the American Historical Association failing its membership?

Passing time in a 24-hour diner

Kerri Greenidge reviews Martha Jones, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

Brutalist buildings

“We have come to believe that those who are smart are also intelligent“

Becca Rothfield reviews two new books on “right-wing women”

Tish Harrison Warren reviews Stanley Hauerwas’s Jesus Changes Everything: A New World Made Possible

Casimir Pulaski

“Town Hall Night in America”

Jennifer Szalai reviews Linda Gordon, Seven Social Movements That Changed America

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