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. A Marxist theory of DOGE What’s in the Joan Didion […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The president of Sojourners underestimated the religious right. When magazine writers got paid. Graydon Carter working on the railroad What Alan Simpson asked Robert Bork Why Commonweal changed its mind […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Trump’s war against academia Invading Canada: A history lesson. The limits of “professional-class liberalism“ Ernie Freeburg rethinks the Scopes Trial Catholic universities in the age of Trump Pope Francis: The […]
Sunday night odds and ends
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 […]
Sunday night odds and ends
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 […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: David Levering Lewis searches for his family history The bulldozer Freedom and prayer Refrigeration Ross Douthat on why he is a Christian Marjoleine Kars reviews Lynn Hunt, The Revolutionary Self: […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Do beavers have souls? Christians against empathy Christianity Today has not received USAID funds The moon Let students finish the book The world the MAGA agenda wants to create Steven […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Has capitalism has killed the humanities? Book blurbs Peter Kolchin, historian of slavery, RIP David French on Trump and the American founding The son of an evangelical ministers came out. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Left-liberal fractures David Brooks on stupidity William E. Leuchtenburg, RIP Steven Mintz on the struggle between populism and progressivism Siva Vaidhyanathan reviews Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation David Brooks on […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught our attention this week: American loneliness “Hamilton” turns ten Joseph Epstein‘s memoir Thorstein Veblen and “tradwives“ Reading obituaries Madison Smartt Bell reviews Marlene L. Daut, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise […]
Sunday night odds and ends
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 […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Self-sabotage The era of Taylor Swift What is modernity? Who benefits from identity politics? Adam Hochschild reviews Brenda Wineapple, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Anti-elitist should not mean anti-education. The moral wisdom of Joe Biden’s pardons Should Trump erect an arch for the country’s 250th anniversary? Sitting in empty churches What was your first […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Arts and Letters Daily is featuring Current‘s best little magazine articles from 2024 roundup. David French, an evangelical, chats with Jonathan Rauch, an atheist about the religion and democracy Michael […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: There are no social media utopias A war of Catholic magazines A conservative center at the UNC-Chapel Hill Studs Terkel’s Working at 50 The problem with blue-collar populism Paul Kingnorth […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Founding friendship Is “The American Century” over? The great dechurching “In Alexander Hamilton’s apt words, the Senate can prevent the appointment of ‘unfit characters’ who would be no more than […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Trump’s cabinet picks in historical context.’ Ken Burns on 50 years of George Will. Manisha Sinha reviews Robert Blackburn’s The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888. The congressman […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Erik Loomis reviews Sunil Amrith, The Burning Earth: A History George Will hopes Trump’s cabinet appointees might revive the separation of powers, as James Madison understood them. How Americans watched […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Fareed Zakaria offers three reasons why Trump won. Blaming democracy Nicholas Kristof: Maybe now Democrats will start paying attention to the working class. Teaching American Studies in Amsterdam Donald Trump […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Henry Wallace ran for president in 1948. His son reflects on his candidacy. Drowned towns Donald Trump’s deportation campaign in historical context. Tim Alberta on the final days of the […]