More Noted Things
Recent years' enthusiasm for the Founding Fathers has neglected John Witherspoon. Roger Kimball,"The Forgotten Founder," Opinion Journal, 3 July; Jonathan Rowe,"John Witherspoon," Positive Liberty, 3 July; and Brandon Watson,"Musing on Witherspoon," Siris, 7 July, is a conversation that needs to happen.
For updates on the controversy over the sale of the Martin Luther King Papers that were to have been auctioned at Sotheby's, see: Ernie Suggs,"Boston Got Prime King Collection in ‘64 – Free," AJC, 7 July; and"King Papers Taken Off Auction Block, butControversy Continues," Library Journal, 7 July.
On the New York State Court of Appeals' decision in Hernandez v Robles, see both: Greg Robinson's"Is Heterophobia Reasonable?" Cliopatria, 7 July; and Jason Kuznicki,"Did the New York Court of Appeals Botch the Rational Basis Test?" Positive Liberty, 7 July.
Mike Karsnak,"Singer's Ethnic Fusion Produces ‘Kosher Gospel'," Washington Post, 8 July, features Josh Nelson. I heard him at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church two years ago and posted"Joshua Nelson: Jewish and African American," Cliopatria, 22 July 2004. You can hear some clips here. Turn the sound up. He'll have you on your feet, singing and dancing.