A few things online that caught my attention this week: Not everyone at Howard University is happy Ibram X. Kendi is coming. Against “scholactivism” Ben Franklin and climate change Martha Nussbaum Udi Greenberg reviews The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the […]
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A few things online that caught my attention this week: Was Francis Fukuyama right about liberal democracy and the “end of history”? Tom Nichols on that Trump-Zelinskyy Oval Office meeting. Jonathan Chait here. Yoni Appelbaum on the Puritan origins of […]
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A few things online that caught my attention this week: David Levering Lewis searches for his family history The bulldozer Freedom and prayer Refrigeration Ross Douthat on why he is a Christian Marjoleine Kars reviews Lynn Hunt, The Revolutionary Self: […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Do beavers have souls? Christians against empathy Christianity Today has not received USAID funds The moon Let students finish the book The world the MAGA agenda wants to create Steven […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Has capitalism has killed the humanities? Book blurbs Peter Kolchin, historian of slavery, RIP David French on Trump and the American founding The son of an evangelical ministers came out. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught our attention this week: American loneliness “Hamilton” turns ten Joseph Epstein‘s memoir Thorstein Veblen and “tradwives“ Reading obituaries Madison Smartt Bell reviews Marlene L. Daut, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Arts and Letters Daily is featuring Current‘s best little magazine articles from 2024 roundup. David French, an evangelical, chats with Jonathan Rauch, an atheist about the religion and democracy Michael […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The new Chicago Manual of Style is here. A writing instructor on why students don’t read. Photos from the 1893 World’s Fair The story behind Maine’s 1840 abolition law. Is […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: JD Vance and the Trump prophets Michael Dirda reviews Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Intellectual humility Brent Staples reviews David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Robert Caro is writing 900 words a day on the last installment of his LBJ biography. Caro’s writing shed here. Caro and The Power Broker “The Fantasy World of Baseball” […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Robert McCoy reviews Brenda Wineapple’s Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation. How the internet is remaking us. Prayers at Trump rallies Sara Georgini reviews […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Is America a “city on a hill?” An academic retires and reflects on the state of the academy. Can you pass a U.S. citizenship test? The guy who wanted to […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Prophecy and the death of Anne Boleyn Pennsylvania and potato chips Elizabeth Clare Prophet was a prophet What do editors do? Misappropriating “puritan” Chris Klimek reviews Steven Hyden’s There Was […]
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: 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 […]
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: 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 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 […]