A few things online that caught my attention this week: Lincoln’s hair Robert Kaiser reviews Benjamin Carp, The Great New York Fire of 1776 The local paper The social significance of the Harlem Globetrotters The “new, new” social conservatives don’t […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The 1850s Black Convention movement Kevin McCarthy joins the insurrection Elizabeth Bruenig on Lent Francis: the first Jesuit Pope Rod Dreher’s last American Conservative blog post Bob Smietana reviews Lerone […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Coffee and happiness Putin and God The GOP as the W.W.E. A Black professor in an “anti-racist hell.” And more here. Charles Mathewes reviews Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and Its Discontents […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: African American historian Henry Louis Gates has a word for Ron DeSantis. Mary Wollstonecraft on marriage. Inside Fox News on the night of the 2020 presidential election. And here. And […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Writers lives are “spent mainly in defeat“ Carole King on Burt Bacharach The Black Hebrew Israelite movement W.E.B. Du Bois on Black History Month Whopper, Whopper, Whopper Whopper History vs. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The history of distraction Rod Dreher responds to this Hollywood’s links to the antebellum South Thomas Chatterton Williams on why he is uneasy with some forms of “anti-wokeness” Steven Kellman […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: In praise of Barnes & Noble Is liberalism worth saving? Arthur Brooks: “happiness revolutionary” Camille Davis reviews Bruce Ragsdale, Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Jill Lepore on why the January 6th Committee Report is a “mess” Should colleges take political positions? A. Philip Randolph Turning to the 1990s for the roots of GOP dysfunction. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The “new history wars” waged at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association. God and guns in American history James Waddell reviews Simon Garfield, All the Knowledge in the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: George Will on Princeton University’s John Witherspoon statue Joanne Freeman provides some context for debacle in the House of Representatives this week. Carlos Lozado reviews Kevin Kruse’s and Julian Zelizer’s […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: When did humans arrive in the Americas? Michael Roth reviews Costica Bradatan, In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility Tattoos in 16th-century Roanoke On historians who weigh-in on political […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Fatigue Philip Rieff, therapeutic culture, and illiberalism We need more book reviews. Democracy depends on it. George Will on the University of Austin and intellectual diversity Will the Trump-era end […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What social media can learn from the coffeehouse Ross Douthat, Hootie and the Blowfish, and the end of history Randall Kennedy reviews Thomas Ricks, Waging a Good War: A Military […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: How to save the Rose Bowl The Brazilian footballer Sócrates Labor historians support railway workers World Socialist Web Site reviews the new 1776 musical Nell Irving Painter on what American […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Books in 19th-century New York City The end of the world as we know it Andrew Delbanco on reparations for Black Americans David Brooks’s on his taste in music David […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Three cheers for university presses A former Bob Jones University student in the wake of the attempted fundamentalist coup Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Former Christian Right leader Rob […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What’s happening at Christian colleges and universities? Is DeSantis the GOP front-runner for 2024? Alan Taylor reviews Stacy Schiff’s The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams New books in American political history Dwight […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid for the birth of Julia Roberts Twice before in history, the Supreme Court has allowed itself to become an arm […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Current pays its writers. But should you write for free? What is dark academia? Bono on his new memoir. Alan Light reviews it here. And Chris Klimek here. What do […]
Sunday nights odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Religion and authoritarian political figures British Marxist historians Is CRT being taught in schools? “Salvation Antiquarianism“ Gary Dorrien on Rafael Warnock Benjamin Wallace-Wells on Rafael Warnock Conservatives and baseball Du […]