A few things online that caught my attention this week: The new Chicago Manual of Style is here. A writing instructor on why students don’t read. Photos from the 1893 World’s Fair The story behind Maine’s 1840 abolition law. Is […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: How the market transformed American bookstores Goodbye airline magazines Brigham Young University has a Jewish quarterback Thoroeau and slavery Getting an MFA in your living room? MAD magazine Trump’s dehumanizing […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: On mining universal laws from anecdotes Does Kamala Harris support late-term abortions? A case for civics Willie Mays and Birmingham David Brooks: Republican exile Intellectual independence requires submission to authority. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: JD Vance and the Trump prophets Michael Dirda reviews Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Intellectual humility Brent Staples reviews David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Is Marilynne Robinson “illiberal?” Samuel Moyn reviews two new books on “equality” Patrick Iber wonders if Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes still holds up today Emily Dickinson’s house is […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Robert Caro is writing 900 words a day on the last installment of his LBJ biography. Caro’s writing shed here. Caro and The Power Broker “The Fantasy World of Baseball” […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The “crude division of people into conservatives and progressives” The meaning of the three-fifths clause You should read books Philosophy for the people Is Kamala Harris benefiting from a cultural […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Should we abolish grades at American universities? There are only two Shakers left. “Our dopamine-driven brains drive us to choose cheap distraction over entertainment and art” Elizabeth Catte reviews three […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Pay teachers $100,000 a year. Did Trump defile an American “sacred space” last week? More here. City Journal hosts a forum on higher education that includes pieces by Wilfred McClay […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why John Fetterman was not at the DNC Pragmatic socialism David Brooks on Tom Wolfe New books: abolitionism and Huck Finn Trails of Tears, Plural First-year reading lists Confidence men […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Robert McCoy reviews Brenda Wineapple’s Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation. How the internet is remaking us. Prayers at Trump rallies Sara Georgini reviews […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Who was Prince Whipple and what did he have to do with Washington crossing the Delaware? Armand D.Angour reviews Simon Horobin’s C.S. Lewis’s Oxford. David French on why he is […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: A history of thinking on paper Bad arguments Trump needs to remember that it’s not 2016 anymore. Did the founders see this political moment coming? 1960 Olympians who tried to […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Would J.D. Vance join a UAW picket line outside a Tesla factory? Goodbye J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, David Foster Wallace, and […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: “Resistance historians?“ The New York Times on the attack on Donald Trump Todd Shy reviews Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis. Linden K. Smith reviews it here. Regionalism and the 1924 Immigration […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Is America a “city on a hill?” An academic retires and reflects on the state of the academy. Can you pass a U.S. citizenship test? The guy who wanted to […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What is an archive? Coffee and the Civil War Michael Sean Winters reviews James Davison Hunter’s Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis The least important […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What can Joe Biden learn from the Lincoln-Douglas debates? In Phoenix, water and political dysfunction are connected. Summer camp Garry Wills on Mother Jones Women and refugee settlements in the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: George Packer visits Phoenix Regina Munch reviews Nathan Perl-Rosenthal’s The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It. What does J.D. Vance believe? The Joey Chestnut controversy The EP […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: E.J. Dionne: “Europeans seem to grasp the threat to U.S. democracy better than we do.” How Chris Rufo and company went after David Austin Walsh Jonathan Malesic reviews Cal Newport’s […]