A few things online that caught my attention this week: The cult of Michigan football The Chronicle of Higher Education lists the ‘best scholarly books” of 2023. How Zionism mixed with colonialism What is critical theory? History tour guides Why […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Illiberalism at The New York Times. Peter Gordon reviews Christina Morina’s The Invention of Marxism. Why are Lefists turning to the Right? And here. Tech titans are “bending a mysterious […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell talk with historian Jennifer Burns about Milton Friedman David French on free speech, censorship, and elite university presidents before Congress. Yascha Mounk takes a similar […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week 3 books on the therapeutic mindset Sandra Day O’Connor, RIP. And here. Five books to read about Sandra Day O’Connor. What is the value of the humanities? The world’s only […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The Atlantic on Reconstruction–then and now. Why are we so fascinated with JFK? What “industry” are you in? Seamus Heaney and “stuff”. Annotating books on TikTok and Instagram. Socialist summer […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The wealthy no longer use their riches to support society. When hillbillies migrated to the cities and joined the white working class. What if the United States lost World War […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The GOP was and is not ready for a post-Roe world. Eboo Patel calls for pluralism on college campuses Liberal arts education and career training. Becca Rothfield reviews Andrew McKevitt, […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: How Robert Moses changed New York and impacted families. Abortion politics in the Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana. David French on Mike Johnson and Christian politics. How state legislatures and ideological boards […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Wilfred McClay on the “burden of the humanities“ Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s ancestor took the Ironclad Oath in 1864. Natalie Zemon Davis, RIP Greg Lukianoff vs. cancel culture. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Historians tell ghost stories George Will compares Trump to George Wallace. The United Auto Workers strike is still going. Here is a piece comparing Shawn Fain to Walter Reuther. The […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: A helpful timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Danielle Allen: America’s “domestic dysfunction and internal division leave out allies around the globe vulnerable.” Lonely roads Jennifer Szalai reviews Fergus M. Bordewich, […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: How did Israel not see it coming? What is going on at The Wall Street Journal? The revolutionary-era treasure of Hell’s Gate, NYC Drew Gilpin Faust: Civil rights activist The […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Heather Cox Richardson: “The Fight for Our America“ Vladimir Putin’s view of history Shohei Othani’s 2023 season New stained-glass windows in Washington National Cathedral The inspiration for Uncle Tom 50,000 […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The academy v. Betty Friedan David French on Trump and the pro-life movement. Will $500 million save local journalism? What is the Crick? Flannery O’Connor’s childhood caretaker. Joe Posnanski: Sportwriter […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The current state of the academic history job market. Right-wing House Republican Ken Buck will not go along with McCarthy’s impeachment plans. David French on the battle over abortion. Drew […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The end of takehome essays? The corruption of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton. Before there was Uncle Sam, there was Brother Jonathan. Should Democrats apologize to the singer of “Rich […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: College dorms Labor Day in American history Lionel Trilling and Cold War liberalism Bill Richardson, RIP The decline of civics What happens when Americans stop going to church? Technology and […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Simone Weil: “decreationist“ An New York Times editor on what she learned about slavery in her 1960s history class. It’s not what you might expect. Female war correspondentes in the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Make college free, triple the number of tenure-track faculty, and hire teachers who can actually teach. Shohei Ohtani What is happening at the University of West Virginia? More here. Daniel […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The antiliberal revolution Providence, history, and the Bronze Age Pervert Are liberal values incompatible with capitalism? Anthony Arnett reviews Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth […]