A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Why no evangelicals on the Supreme Court?
Robert Merry reviews David S. Reynolds, Abe: Abraham Lincoln and His Times
Trump is a tragic figure
Mitchell Cohen reviews John Judis, The Socialist Awakening: What’s Different Now About the Left
Mike Piazza‘s former Italian soccer team
What happens is incapacitated or dies?
E.J. Dionne on social Catholicism and politics
Amy Coney Barrett and charismatic Catholicism
The last time writers left news outlets to write newsletters
11 historic sites that need saving
David Greenberg reviews Jonathan Alter, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
Should we abandon the U.S. Senate?
Hermione Lee reviews Marilynne Robinson’s Jack. Elaine Showalter reviews it here.
Don’t put your books in a greenhouse