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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Leon Wieseltier on preserving the earth and the republic Barack Obama’s unpublished book David Bentley Hart How do you “teach for equity” when the subject is organic chemistry? (Or most […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: John Loughery reviews David Kertzer’s The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler Rick Perlstein on the long backlash against teaching progress in public schools […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: The pre-history of popular music Marilyn Robinson on gun violence 1979 all over again? Ross Douthat on the end of Roe The religious roots of the phrase, “good guy with […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Great American writers and misery Early Quaker spirituality in one map Alan Ryan reviews Oliver Zunz, The Man who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville “History will accept […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Dominic Green reviews Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past. Lewis Lapham interviews Cohen here Caitlin Flanagan on the trail of Joan Didion George Will offers the […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Who would win a fight between a Bengal tiger and a ram? 19th-century chimney sweepers Lynching postcards William G. Thomas reviews Linda Hirschman, The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Martha Jones reviews a new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction The history of hobbies Abolish the U.S. Senate? He was an eyewitness to the deaths of Lincoln and […]

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 […]

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“ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]