Dammit, finals! You're killing me here. Hopefully later this week I'll be back in the saddle. Sorry.
Exploring the archaeological history of Nabataea.
Nice ten-minute piece on Black Twitter.
Molly Worthen on the evangelical "faith and work" movement, and its prospects for helping not just its evangelical adherents get a better grip on a morally sane way of living in this world.
Compare the Worthen piece to this piece by Anne Helen Petersen, on another Chapel Hill NC church. (But, for all this church's openness, I don't see any people of color in the pictures--is its membership really so white?)
Curious story of Benjamin's "final" work, the "Theses on the Philosophy of History".
Not a great piece on Isaiah Berlin--it swallows too unresistingly the way he sets up the contrastative categories of "negative" and "positive" liberty in his famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty," which is just what Berlin wanted but which also speaks to the too-easy facility which marks a lot of his direct arguments and which makes it so attractive to people who have not thought seriously, critically, and dialectically, for themselves, about the issues at hand--but still, it covers the ground.