What They Didn’t Teach You in School about Harriet Tubman
Eli Lehrer, National Review
The Medal of St. Benedict: Bracelet Edition
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Shakespeare, Cervantes, and the Romance of the Real
R. V. Young, Modern Age
The Baptism of Poland
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Trump’s Putin Fantasy
Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books
Why Our Evangelism Doesn’t Work
Elliot Milco, Paraphasic
The Imaginary Suicide of Mrs. Darling
Elyse Byrnes, Lingua Barbara
Midnight Special‘s Supernatural Faith
Tim Markatos, Acculturated
400 Years After Shakespeare’s Death, He’s Still Required Reading (Even For Econ Majors)
Leah Libresco, FiveThirtyEight
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