• “Can someone sympathize with a political movement and still be its clear-eyed critic?” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

• On the revival of FDR’s economic populism. (Jacobin)

• On the creation and legacy of slave patrols. (Throughline)

• On the mansions that grew from Gilded Age industrial wealth. (JSTOR Daily)

• The goals and legacy of the Gettysburg address. (The Collector)

• “Not-so-happy 100th birthday to Ireland’s Committee of Evil Literature.” (Literary Hub)

• How “caste organizes appetite, dignity, and memory.” (Guernica)

• Finding echoes of Greek myths in contemporary science writing. (The Conversation)

• “La Tour has something to tell us about true drama that Caravaggio doesn’t, really—about the way that it is not about drawing attention but about giving it, and how it unfolds not in the moment of action or at the apex of emotion, but in the stillness of looking so closely for so long, that it has the power to transform.” (Harper’s)

• This week in obituaries: Frederick Wiseman, Roy Medvedev, Eric Dane, Jane Baer, Richard Ottinger, Billy Steinberg, Robert Duvall, Henrike Naumann, Dana Eden, Lil Poppa, Tom Noonan, Tim Very, José van Dam, David Hays, and Jesse Jackson.