A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Michael Bellesiles talks about Arming America
Maya Jasanoff reviews Christopher Benfey, If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years
We need to give more credit to Venus
The 1619 Project: What would Walter Brueggemann say?
Humanities and the public good
Randall Kennedy reviews Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
The evangelical left
Andrew Preston reviews Matthew Sutton, Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Christianity and capitalism: Are they compatible?
A new John Locke manuscript on religious toleration
Trump is not the first president to compare himself to Jesus
Michael Bellesiles talks about Arming America
https://www.aier.org/article/how-twitter-corrupting-history-profession
heh heh heh
Next time one of the twits in your trade fancies in print that the business schools should be closed, he should be reminded in sharp terms that he is expendable and the business schools are not.
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I think Trump may be the first President to make the messiah analogy after all. Andrew Johnson never compared himself to Christ (as far as I can tell). He said that people compared him to Judas and he said if he played Judas then “who has been my Christ that I played the Judas with?” (Hans Trefousse, “Johnson: A Biography,” (1997), p. 266.
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