In case you still don’t know, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd. Here is how Twitter is responding: As of 8:43pm on Tuesday evening, April 20, 2021 the following national politicians […]
Archives for April 2021
Department of Education proposes “priorities” for American History and Civics programs
You can read the document here. These priorities may influence who gets federal money for American history and civics programs and who does not. The Department is soliciting comments on these proposed priorities. The American History and Civics Education programs […]
Howard University drops its classics department. Cornel West calls it a “spiritual catastrophe.”
West and Jeremy Tate of the Classical Learning Test respond to the historically black university’s decision to dissolve its classics department. Here is a taste of their op-ed in The Washington Post: Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass […]
The second episode of “A History of Evangelicals and Politics” podcast is here!
Episode 1: “The Religious Making of a President” (our second episode) dropped last night. Subscribers toĀ CurrentĀ at the Longshore level and above receive this brand new narrative history podcast. In this episode I talk about the differences between my conversion experience […]
The Post-Truth Coalition
How evangelicals learned to stop worrying and love postmodernism
Michael Lindell launched his new social media platform today. It did not go well.
Here is Oscar Gonzalez at CNET: Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and an ardent fan of former President Donald Trump, spent months developing a new social media platform after he was banned from Twitter due to his constant tweets regarding bogus claims of voter fraud […]
Walter Mondale, RIP
Mondale was a Minnesota senator, vice-president, and presidential candidate. Here is The Washington Post: Walter F. Mondale, the former Democratic senator and vice president whose unusually candid and forward-looking bid for the pinnacle of American politics was blocked by President […]
Video of the Day
Cocoa Beach, Florida:
Norman: “The cop who mistook her gun for a taser (and other mysteries)”
Tony Norman is a columnist at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and Current contributor. Here is a taste of his recent column at the Post Gazette: The strangest thing about the killing of […]
Chris Cuomo: Police reform and gun control will come when “white people’s kids start getting killed” and Black people start forming militias
Watch here. After Cuomo finished his monologue, Michael Smerconish and Van Jones joined him on air to talk about this. You can listen to their conversation here. A taste: Smerconish: I thought your commentary was brilliant and depressing and you’re […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar back-off their Anglo-Saxon caucus proposal
On Saturday we called your attention to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and Paul Gosar’s Anglo-Saxon caucus in the House of Representatives. It now appears that they have backed-off. Here is Allan Smith at NBC News: Two far-right House RepublicansĀ linked to a […]
Evangelical Roundup for April 19, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? Why are the people who operate in a culture that has a long history of individual and systemic racism always the people who can’t resist taking a shot at critical race theory? And why do […]
The Author’s Corner with Kate Mulry
Kate Mulry is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Bakersfield. This interview is based on her new book, An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic (NYU Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write […]
The Sassafras is Blooming!
Those suffering in earlier epidemics believed there was power in the wood. Are we so different?
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Planned parenthood must reckon with Margaret Sanger. William Blake and Thomas Paine Pandemics and libraries Naming New York When Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments Why pro-life […]
What is patriotism?
George Will uses his syndicated column this week to review Steven B. Smith’s book Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes. Here is a taste: Some on the right mistake their compound of grievances and resentments for patriotism. This mentality […]
Biden responds to evangelical World Relief’s call to raise the refugee ceiling
Evangelicals are doing good work. Here is a taste of Jack Jenkins’s reporting at Religion News Service: President Joe Bidenās administration has reversed a decision to keep in place a historically low cap on refugee admissions left by Donald Trump, […]
The Anglo-Saxon caucus?
Yup. It looks like this might be a thing. Anglo-Saxonism is back. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) are starting the “America First Caucus.” On election fraud: Recent election results demonstrate a compromised integrity of our elections […]
Tweet of the day
Michael Smerconish:
Liberty University sues Jerry Falwell Jr. for $10 million
I can’t keep up with all these Liberty University stories. Last week disgraced former president Jerry Falwell Jr. was touting the COVID-19 vaccine and catching a lacrosse game on campus. Earlier this week Liberty fired Trey Falwell, Falwell Jr.’s son. […]