A few things online that caught my attention this week:
Alexander Hamilton owned slaves
Matthew Clemente reviews Elisabeth Lasch Quinn, Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living
Another writer moves to Substack
The election in Georgia in historical context
Health care workers can’t go on like this
Are Republicans still an American political party?
Why the Pilgrims would probably cancel Thanksgiving this year
The conservative never Trumpers at The Bulwark
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reviews Barack Obama, A Promised Land
Intellectuals on the Left discuss the meaning of the 2020 election
Banning travel in a pandemic in A.D. 640
Ronald K.L. Collins reviews Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues Through the Hit Musical
The Black man who invented Nebraska football
Marilynne Robinson, God, and Jack
Virginia DeJohn Anderson reviews Thomas Ricks, First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned From the Greeks and Romans and How That Shared Our Country
Louis Masur reviews David Reynolds, Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times