Today's Selections

Contest or Conquest? (link) –– “A provocative history of indigenous North America.”

The End of The System of the World (link)

Pastlessness (link) –– The stuff of history is not outside us.

“Why I Keep Getting Mistaken for a Conservative” (link) –– Kat Rosenfield entertains in National Review.

An Uvalde Survivor (link)

FLASHBACK:

The Duke in His Domain (link)

STUFF I'VE BEEN WRITING

The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea (link)

Noteworthy...

Above are the usual selections, focused on feature stories. This section will feature other noteworthy stuff: undercovered news stories about civil liberties and other subjects dear to my heart; worthwhile video content; and other treats intended to increase your pleasure.

The lab leak theory gains steam (link)
A bus trip (link)
On pleasure gardens (link)
Iceland’s annual sheep roundup (link)
A diarist (link)
Andrew Sullivan on Rishi Sunak (link)
Bret Stephens changes his mind about climate change (link)
On Grover Cleveland (link)
The rising tide of global sadness (link)
Stop Blaming the Press for Trump’s Rise (link)
How to speed up science (link)
James Bennet was right (link)
FDR and the Holocaust (link)
The new gatekeepers (link)
On blasphemy (link)
Better understand “the Latino vote” (link)
Island trouble (link)
Chemicals in the blood (link)
Here come the investigations (link)
Doom and gloom (link)
Let’s say gay (link)
A defense of the tomato sandwich (link)
The legal bills of Stacey Abrams (link)
Notes from Iran (link)
Fabio Wibmer biking video (link)
Tony Hawk tells the story of his career (video)