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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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Michael Kimmage reviews Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Culture in the Cold War Vast early America A conservative proposal for education reform Ibram X. Kendi on the Ezra […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Sermongate Should you quit Twitter? George Will: Move the mound back a foot and have only two infielders Substack and the economy Peter Wehner interviews Jonathan Rauch on the “death […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Brad East on George Scialabba on Wendell Berry David Klion reviews George Packer, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal Ross Douthat on race and the history wars Is […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Procrastination Thomas Frank reviews Jon Meacham’s The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels What happened to English Departments? “The extent of the former president’s corruption may be […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen reviews Alan Taylor, American Republics; A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 American best-sellers and the soul of the nation Critics of the 1619 Project defend Nikole […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Historical illiteracy New York’s hyphenation debate Tea at the gas station Anyone who takes an honest look at American history should be “woke” Memorial Day cartoons Gordon Wood reviews Alan […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Brooke Allen reviews Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity–and Why This Harms Everybody. Evangelicals call their fellow evangelicals to […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: George Scialabba reviews Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thoughts in the Cold War Should Breyer retire? Check marks and writing Slavery and early Boston The GOP is obsessed […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Race reductionism Low voter turnout in historical context Diversity, equity, and inclusion in history context Why the first 100 days matter The office Is the nation back? Small-town revivals “We […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Speaking to kids in the wake of the Chauvin verdict Keith Whittington reviews Ulrich Baer, What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth, and Equality on Campus. Gerson on MLK Michael […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Planned parenthood must reckon with Margaret Sanger. William Blake and Thomas Paine Pandemics and libraries Naming New York When Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments Why pro-life […]

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Handwritten letters Loggers and environmentalists Did Biden hit the wrong Georgia? Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance How Annette Gordon-Reed uses social media Wheaton College and evangelical missions The most interesting […]