A few things online that caught my attention this week: James Hunter on the moral formation of democracy. Kate Lucky reviews Sarah McCammon’s The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church Should Trump get prison time? Physical bodies. […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Prophecy and the death of Anne Boleyn Pennsylvania and potato chips Elizabeth Clare Prophet was a prophet What do editors do? Misappropriating “puritan” Chris Klimek reviews Steven Hyden’s There Was […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Daniel Schillinger reviews occasional Current writer Anton Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation. Maureen Dowd on Bill Maher Has “heterodoxy” become its own orthodoxy? […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Left burnout Pamela Paul on Glenn Loury. John McMillan on Loury here. What is “diversity”? Dad jokes “Democracy Refreshed“ A “post-religious right?” “…too educated to return to his life as […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Paul Berman excuses the Columbia students, but not the faculty. A new documentary on the work of Robert “Bowling Alone” Putnam. Why isn’t historian Johann Neem a talking head in […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Does the world still need Immanuel Kant? Jimmy Breslin on the 1962 Mets: “Basically, the trouble with the Mets is the way they play baseball.” An Atlantic writer takes a […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Joseph Priestley and time. The American history textbooks wars of the 1920s Rereading Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities The Diggers Against paywalls When nostalgia was a disease. Daniel K. Williams reviews […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Can Biden go right and left at the same time? When America was “begging richer allies for help“ Raymond Williams and hope An administrator tells and English professor to do […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why was Joseph Epstein fired from the editorship of the American Scholar. George Will’s baseball quiz David Brooks on liberalism Andrew Sullivan on Trump and the God Bless the USA […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week Cultural stagnation When a Black female head of a D.C. school was “punished for leading“ Paul Tillich Why some Girl Scout cookies get cut from the roster. Soong-Chan Rah reviews […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Culture warriors–on the left and the right–don’t know much about what happens in history classrooms. What are universities for? Enchantment and the future of the humanities. Jonathan Teubner reviews Peter […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: In praise of Churchill and FDR Anna Kornbluh on our obsession with individualism. The small group of White House staffers who prepared the way for Gerald Ford months before Nixon […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: James Davison Hunter: “We now simply lack an adequate vocabulary for making moral judgments or for directing moral action in our public or private lives.” Abandoned churches On intellectual humility […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Liberal socialism Peter Wehner on “The Chosen“ When people thought California was an island. Teaching the secrecy of the Constitutional Convention. The John Birch Society is now mainstream Former Harvard […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Jonathan RĂ©e reviews Émile Perreau-Saussine’s Alasdair McIntyre: An Intellectual Biography. The publishing world‘s “grumpy old men” and “cantankerous codgers.” If you come after them, “you best not miss.” What holds […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Eric Banks reviews Benjamin Taylor, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather. Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs: A “balm for our sorely divided nation.” Carter Woodson and Black History […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Abraham Lincoln’s 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, IL. Yellowstone National Park’s winterkeeper. Darryl Hart and Menckeniana Do we need more Hubert Humphrey liberalism? Lost photos of […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What is creative non-fiction? What is the state of the Christian prophetic vision in age of nationalism and socialism? Amber Husain reviews Sara Marcus, Political Disappointment: A Culture History From […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Rom Brownstein on Nikki Haley’s chances. The “Christian Bubble” Why do all coffee shops look the same? Anne Lamont on aging Samuel Goldman reviews Wilson Carey McWilliams, The Idea of […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Stained glass American history at the National Cathedral. Josh Hawley: America is a Christian nation. Fareed Zakaria: Is Israel’s war in Gaza “proportionate?“ John McWhorter on the resignation of Claudine […]