• “Do we need to understand histories of injustice to navigate the present? Does the possibility of a political moment lie in its fights and injuries and partial solidarities, rather than its conciliatory bids for consensus? If so, what can philosophy hope to add?” (The New Republic)

• The history of the “welfare queen.” (Pictorial)

• “Wonder is sadly absent from much of our discussions on history and philosophy today.” (Aeon)

• “Ancient anti-witchcraft potion found at old Northamptonshire pub.” (BBC News)

• Early Celts: more wine for everyone! (Cosmos)

• “She’s finally more interested in America, for we are the ones with something yet to learn about the business of facing the past.” (The New York Review of Books)

• This week in Is this history?: Patti LuPone’s failed effort to make a tiny musical about a ghost who lives in a laundromat dryer. (NewYorker.com)

• Meet Seth. (New York Times)

• This week in obituaries: Robert Evans, Sadako Ogata, John Witherspoon, John Conyers, Huang Yong Ping, Norman Myers, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Alison Prince.