A few things online that caught my attention this week: Real conversation Jason Blakely reviews Patrick Deneen, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future. Is Harvard good for your soul? Ethical grandstanding on social media Climate change and the end of […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: 29 rules for reading James Lasdun reviews Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an American Commune Robert Bellah: A socialist who insisted democracy needs religion. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The end of neoliberalism? Francis Fukuyama on “The Fourth Turning” The difficult task of separating early Christianity from pagan rituals and beliefs. Does Joe Biden have a Cornel West problem? […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Good conversation A Midwestern childhood Should we be fighting climate change in the same way we fought the Nazis? Woody Guthrie: radical Are the rich really getting richer at the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: David French on MAGA America Richard Price: 18th-century dissenter Ornamental hermits The Yankee peddler A defense of the Cornel West presidential candidacy Culture wars, bipartisanship, and our understanding of the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Charles Arrowsmith reviews Peter Moore’s Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream Jill Lepore on how to save the Constitution. Economic rights Aram Goudsouzian reviews […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Anne Applebaum on the Russian people’s response to the Wagner Group’s attempted insurrection. The Nation saves Bookforum. Old magazines and change over time. Saving baseball. Jon Zoebenica reviews Alexander Stille’s […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen reviews two new book on failure. When you find out that your church was part of the slave trade. Stephen Brumwell reviews Brady J. Crytzer’s The Whiskey Rebellion: […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Historian Peter Brown’s 700 page memoir. And here. And here. E.J. Dionne: Trump’s indictment is “imperative for justice” Did Martha Washington have a Black grandson? Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: When the United States dabbled in hippo farming. Why the founding fathers loved the classics Susan Sontag on independent thinking Charisma Chuck Berry Democrats who want Trump to win the […]
Sunday nights odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Nancy Isenberg reviews Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America. The Journal of Controversial Ideas New books on baseball Nelson Lichtenstein reviews Rachel Maddow’s podcast on American Nazis in the 1940s. Is […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Jim Brown Making money and stoking fear at the Mexican border Balancing individualism and community in Sweden. Ted Widmer reviews Joshua Seitz, Lincoln’s God: How Faith Transformed a President and […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Fareed Zakaria: “There’s no mystery about why the U.S. has so many gun deaths.” Families and the monitoring of screen time. How to find the best image for your project. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The influence of Roger Scruton on conservatism. Leah Finnegan reviews Ben Smith, Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. How to rig an election: 1876 […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Do professors have “tech paranoia?“ The end of Fort Lee. A Protestant cemetery in Rome. The extremism, aggression, and lack of restraint in MAGA world are spreading. The death of […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: John Brown’s farm Tiya Miles reviews David Waldstreicher’s The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley. Fred Bauer reviews Michael Walzer’s The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective. Thomas […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The first and only impeached Supreme Court justice. Monetizing historical footage Michael Fletcher reviews Theresa Runstedtler, Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Real historical documents or fake historical documents? Take the quiz. When George W. Bush was a hero. Can national flood insurance keep pace with climate change? Climate change and home […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: When Warren Harding paid mistress to stay silent. Dominic Green reviews Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope. Michael Kazin wonders if it is […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The four foot tall Quaker prophet If Trump is indicted, the founders would be pleased Emily Tankin reviews Eric Alterman’s We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over […]