A few things online that caught my attention this week:
What happened to lectures?
In the age of NIL there are no Cinderellas
Take George Will’s 2025 Opening Day quiz.
What’s in the Joan Didion papers at the New York Public Library. And here.
Daniel Woolf reviews Tobias Becker’s Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia
Howie Rose: Mets radio announcer
Patrick Henry: Beyond “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”
Steve Majors reviews David Levering Lewis, The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
Social media and political memory
How campuses can better cultivate critical awareness, civic engagement, student development, and global literacy.
A World Council of Churches archive
Is baseball without umpires still baseball?
Jeremy Beer reviews Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America.
Conservative Christians are building an agricultural refuge in the hills of Tennessee.