Robert A. Gross is Emeritus Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut. This interview is based on his new book, The Transcendentalists and Their World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). JF: What led you to âwrite The Transcendentalists […]
Archives for January 2022
Current announces its board of contributing editors
After nine months of publication, Current is happy to publish its full masthead, including the names of those who have joined us as contributing editors. They are: Vincent BacoteProfessor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian EthicsWheaton […]
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Evangelical roundup for January 10, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals are satisfied with evangelicalism. Shane on evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht: Shane on Trump evangelicalism: David French writes about a question historians have been addressing for forty years. Eric Metaxas compares January 6th […]
Look Upâand Look Out!
Adam McKayâs new film isnât about our era. Itâs about us.
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Martha Jones reviews a new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction The history of hobbies Abolish the U.S. Senate? He was an eyewitness to the deaths of Lincoln and […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Andrew Gustafson, “Wide Awoke in Corporate America?“ Sarah Imboden, “Only Connect“ John Fea, “Was Jeffersonâs Tree of Liberty Refreshed on January 6th?“ Adam Jortner, “Found Footage: January 6 and the […]
BOOK MARKS: Minor Respects
âSteinbeck was normally permissive with his editors on such points, though he strongly resisted what he called âcollaborationâ . . .â
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Evangelical roundup for January 6, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelical anti-Trumpers are out there. Franklin Graham on the 1-year anniversary of January 6, 2021: Anthony Bradley on evangelical Reformed culture as an object of sociological and historical critique: True: A Southern Baptist pastor […]
Was Jeffersonâs Tree of Liberty Refreshed on January 6th?
How bad historical thinking led to an insurrection
Song of the day
Hat tip: Caroline Fea
Historian Michael Kazin reviews conservative pundit Mark Levin’s book on Marxism
Michael Kazin is a history professor at Georgetown and former editor of Dissent. Some of you may recall his Current review of Anthea Butler’s White Evangelical Racism. Over at The Nation, Kazin reviews radio and Fox News personality Mark Levin’s […]
Male burnout is real
Here is Jonathan Malesic, author of The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives, at The New York Times: Eight years ago, I had a great job as a tenured professor at a small […]
The political philosophy of candidate J.D. Vance
As many of you know, the author of Hillbilly Elegy is running for a United States Senate seat from Ohio as a national (Trump) conservative. Over at The Washington Post, Simon van Zuylen-Wood offers one of the best profiles of […]
Catholic social teaching as an alternative to neoliberalism
Anthony Annett of Fordham University articulates the differences between neoliberalism and Catholic social teaching. Here are some of those differences: Neoliberalism defines human motivation in terms of self-interest. Catholic social teaching defines human motivation in terms of “solidarity, reciprocity, and […]
Wide Awoke in Corporate America?
Since when are the likes of Nike and Coke legitimate moral authorities?
Tish Harrison Warren collected 10 New Year’s resolutions that are “good for the soul”
Read them at Warren‘s New York Times column. Here are few: Jen Pollock Michel: “Take time to reflect” Paul Lim: “Plant seeds of humility” Andy Crouch: “Engage with the offscreen world first” Tim Keller: “Take stock of your life every […]
The only Democrat to defeat Barack Obama is retiring from the House of Representatives
He is 75-year-old Chicago congressman Bobby Rush and he wants to spend more time with his grandkids after serving fifteen terms in the House. Rush beat Obama in the 2000 Illinois 1st congressional district Democratic primary by about thirty percentage […]
Americans are quitting their jobs in record numbers
This is a sign that the job market is getting stronger. Here is the Associated Press: A record 4.5 million American workers quit their jobs in November, a sign of confidence and more evidence that the U.S. job market is […]