A few things online that caught my attention this week: Cornel West on why the world needs Jesus Osita Nwanevu reviews Alan Taylor’s contributions to early American history Historian Richard White on the downsides of infrastructure spending The history wars […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The limits of audiobooks Can culture degenerate? The state of essay writing The widow of Medgar Evers and the grandson of Vice President Henry Wallace on Jim Crow Tucker Carlson […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What the founding fathers feared We all need more “radical humility“ Can a history lesson change an insurrectionist? Can Catholic social teaching contribute to a renewed democratic culture? Book piles […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Plumber Jones and Professor Cowen Black celebrity intellectuals A Netflix show on the university Emmett Till Agnes Howard reviews Philippa Koch, The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Michael Kimmage reviews Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Culture in the Cold War Vast early America A conservative proposal for education reform Ibram X. Kendi on the Ezra […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Sermongate Should you quit Twitter? George Will: Move the mound back a foot and have only two infielders Substack and the economy Peter Wehner interviews Jonathan Rauch on the “death […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Where is our political imagination? Does the Library of Congress need a new name? What did Margaret Mead think about the nature of men and women Civic healing Nat Turner: […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Brad East on George Scialabba on Wendell Berry David Klion reviews George Packer, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal Ross Douthat on race and the history wars Is […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Procrastination Thomas Frank reviews Jon Meacham’s The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels What happened to English Departments? “The extent of the former president’s corruption may be […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Katie Ladecky Molly Worthen on how to “dial down” the political hatred Three writers review Ariel Ron’s, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic An […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen reviews Alan Taylor, American Republics; A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 American best-sellers and the soul of the nation Critics of the 1619 Project defend Nikole […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Historical illiteracy New York’s hyphenation debate Tea at the gas station Anyone who takes an honest look at American history should be “woke” Memorial Day cartoons Gordon Wood reviews Alan […]
Sunday Night Odds and Ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: David Brooks talks to Joe Biden Liberal Black intellectuals on race Mother Theresa as a cult leader? John Calhoun, the filibuster, and anti-majoritarianism Lecrae and white evangelicalism “Hey Stella” and […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Brooke Allen reviews Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity–and Why This Harms Everybody. Evangelicals call their fellow evangelicals to […]
Sunday nights odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: George Scialabba reviews Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thoughts in the Cold War Should Breyer retire? Check marks and writing Slavery and early Boston The GOP is obsessed […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Race reductionism Low voter turnout in historical context Diversity, equity, and inclusion in history context Why the first 100 days matter The office Is the nation back? Small-town revivals “We […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Speaking to kids in the wake of the Chauvin verdict Keith Whittington reviews Ulrich Baer, What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth, and Equality on Campus. Gerson on MLK Michael […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Planned parenthood must reckon with Margaret Sanger. William Blake and Thomas Paine Pandemics and libraries Naming New York When Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments Why pro-life […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Handwritten letters Loggers and environmentalists Did Biden hit the wrong Georgia? Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance How Annette Gordon-Reed uses social media Wheaton College and evangelical missions The most interesting […]
Historians and Lying
Why are we skeptics to the core?