A few things online that caught my attention this week: Jack Hamilton reviews Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt turns 100 Joe William Trotter: A historian of the African American experience Randall Stephens […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Prioritization often kills the liberal arts Joan Didion, RIP. And here. Careerism and the writing life Book wrapt The Godfather and The Godfather II as Christmas movies Is teaching worth […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Distraction-free writing Why is America at war over slavery? On napping and productivity What if the January 6 Committee issues a compelling report and nobody cares Newtown mourns What “Big […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: How to make you research accessible to public audiences? Vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are angry with each other. Independent journalism The editors of the Journal of the Early Republic talk […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Democrats need to get out more. Bill Bradley’s one man show–no, literally. A short history of conservative critiques of American higher education. Why are we obsessed with winning? John McWhorter […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: A book banned in China and Texas. Thomas Jefferson and women The New Yorker interviews Allen Guelzo on Robert E. Lee AOC and “The Squad” vs. James Madison The benefits […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The confusing and elusive “1619 Project.” Emerson and Thoreau vs. 21st century libertarianism Are the Democrats the real party of racism? Magazine covers Today there is no “classically educated elite“ […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why is an image of Wheaton College atop this piece on “failed conservative ” and “right-wing breakaway” colleges. The Anti-Racist movement as a “counterproductive religion‘ Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tony Judt […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: “When politicians claim professors like me are the enemy, what are they really attacking?” Collective narcissism Matthew Levey reviews Roosevelt Montas, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why we need the humanities The Springsteen-Obama echo chamber? The Columbia Journalism Review covers evangelical financial guru Dave Ramsey The American Right and Hungary Gerald Early on identity politics Americans […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Robert Nisbet on managerialism and the modern university How will today’s students fall in love with a book? The British Empire was built on slavery, and then antislavery. The music […]
Sunday nights odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: New research shows a link between lynchings and Confederate monuments Authors are avoiding Goodreads George Will on Allen Guelzo‘s new biography of Robert E. Lee Rod Dreher on the manliness […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Lee Robson reviews Louis Menand, The Free World The Fisk Jubilee Singers “Problematic“ Herd immunity in historical perspective Seeing people, not groups Rod Dreher on Francis Collins The collapse of […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What is scholarship does not have political relevance? What happened to a Brooklyn high school basketball star and novelist? Alan Jacobs reviews Jonathan Franzen’s new novel. The Claremont Institute is […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: How moderates and progressives can come together on spending How personal responsibility evolved into selfishness Jonathan Den Hartog reviews Tracy McKenzie’s We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Eric Rauchway reviews Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s Peril. The N-word in class Is Djokovic the greatest tennis player of all time? Chris Gerhz reviews Ethan Schrum, The Instrumental University: […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The Baffler addresses efforts to rehab liberalism The culture wars are an “elite device” Can social media be politically productive? A history of the index McWhorter: Systemic racism exists. Now […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Daniel K. Finn reviews Benjamin M. Friedman’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism A conservative Washington Post columnist calls Kevin McCarthy a demagogue Hanging out with The Eagles on the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Kate Bowler is not making a bucket list. Humanities at church-related colleges Should AP government classes talk about contemporary presidential elections? Roadside America The past is a foreign country Some […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Remembering a Chattanooga lynching Christian historians Instead of learning lessons from Afghanistan we are fighting over masks DeSantis and Abbott are putting lives at risk Pastors have some influence on […]