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A few things online that caught my attention this week: Bad Catholics, great writers Nineteenth-century missionaries to the Ottoman Empire The “Mitt Romney martyr thesis“ Alberto Polimeni reviews two new books on populism Arlington Cemetery‘s Confederate monument A stop at […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: “When bad thinking happens to good people” Boys and men are struggling in the United States Newsletters, Substacks, and journalism Steve Futterman reviews John McEuen, Will the Circle Be Unbroken: […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: George Will on Doug Mastriano Missing Roger Federer Historians on first books W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America P.T. Barnum on the dangers of alcohol Lewis Lapham interviews Kermit […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Queen Elizabeth II and white evangelicals John McWhorter makes clear his views on race in America What do National Conservatives want? Michael Bobelian reviews Nicole Hemmer’s Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Barbara Ehrenreich, RIP Historian Michael Kazin on Labor Day The difference between economists and historians “When in this story does Michael Corleone really become an American?” Oliver Cromwell in America […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Bookworms at the Huntington Library A critique of big history The limits of biography The Twilight Zone as cultural criticism Doug Mastriano in his New Apostolic Reformation context Understanding the […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Dwight Garner reviews Jared Kushner’s “soulless” memoir. But is it a “hit piece?” One of the North Andover middle schoolers on her work in “ending witchcraft” in Salem. David Brooks […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Museum bathrooms St. Augustine and slavery Max Norman reviews Jeff Deutsch, In Praise of Good Bookstores What happens to your tax return? The history of tenure Political writing Charlie Kirk […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Kevin Carey reviews Will Bunch, After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics The roots of “Great Replacement” theory Things left in […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: A new development in the Emmett Till tragedy The best places to catch some baseball history Two new books on the state of American democracy The January 6th Committee and […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why do conservatives hate theory? The ultimate NFL insider The persistence of Russian nationalism Tali Farhadian Weinstein reviews John Wood Sweet’s The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why write? Where are all the first-generation academics? 19th-century quack medicine Make birth free All history is revisionist history The most pathetic men in America The history we need to […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Historian Robert Caro and his editor Michael Brenes reviews Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and Its Discontents Historians and creative liberties. A trip to an antiquarian book fair The responsibility of pro-lifers […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Baseball is changing David Sedaris writes thank-you notes Cornel West on pragmatism Since Watergate it has become more difficult to hold president’s accountable Harold Myerson reviews Gary Dorrien, American Democratic […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: The problem with book reviewing Are the culture wars still religious in nature? Historians as contextualizers Philip Gorski and Sam Perry talk about Christian nationalism Are professors groomers? “Relief for […]