A little humor for this Tuesday morning:
Archives for April 2022
The Gilder-Lehrman Institute teams-up with Gettysburg College to offer a new master’s degree in American history
Here is the press release: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Gettysburg College have partnered to offer an affordable, fully online master’s degree program—led by renowned, award-winning historians—that brings together the leading non-profit American history organization and one of […]
Can “secular liberal historians” teach Christians about the Gospel?
Dan Williams is a Current contributing editor, an Anxious Bench contributor, and a professor of history at the University of West Georgia. In recent piece at the Anxious Bench, Williams reflects on all he has learned about his faith from […]
A preview of the Bob Dylan Museum
Here is Douglas Brinkley at Vanity Fair: When news broke in 2016 that Bob Dylan had given his vast archive of recordings and artifacts to the George Kaiser Family Foundation of Tulsa, people were taken aback. Why was this cultural trove […]
LONG FORM: Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly
Great transformations of moral perception make debtors of us all—if we have eyes to see
John Inazu on the anti-woke victory at Grove City College
John Inazu teaches law at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and (with Tim Keller) Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of […]
“First off, let me be very clear tonight, the election in 2020 was rigged and stolen”
This is how Trump-endorsed Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue started his Sunday night debate with current Georgia governor Brian Kemp. Here is Brittany Gibson at Politico: David Perdue made his intentions clear right out of the gate: In his opening […]
More Southern Baptist drama
This comes from a blogger called “The Masked Baptist“: SBC entities work for the churches. Right? We thought so too. But what about when employees of an SBC Entity refuse to help stop the blackmail a Southern Baptist pastor and try to […]
Evangelical roundup for April 25, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? More than half of U.S. adults (55%) believe the Constitution is inspired by God. Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center on the “left’s pedophiliac agenda.” This fear-based interview will probably lead to a nice […]
The Author’s Corner with David K. Thomson
David K. Thomson is Assistant Professor of History at Sacred Heart University. This interview is based on his new book, Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). […]
From Grandpa Lenin with Love
A Soviet childhood leaves its traces on the heart—even as the mind wonders why
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The future of The New York Times Book Review Critiquing Ken Burns on Ben Franklin The construction company that has removed 23 Confederate monuments Douglas Brinkley reviews Richard Cohen, Making […]
Episode 100: Christian Historians as Activists?
In this episode, our 100th, host John Fea redelivers his 2022 Conference on Faith and History presidential address. Listen at: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeartRadio Spotify Podchaser Podbean The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast is a product of Current. If you […]
The Utah Democratic Party will back independent Evan McMullin against GOP Senator Mike Lee
The Utah Democratic Party will not run a candidate in the 2022 U.S. Senate race. Here is the Associated Press: Utah Democrats pulling hard to defeat Republican Sen. Mike Lee took the unusual step Saturday of spurning a party hopeful […]
The internet is demonic
I just came across Sam Kriss‘s review of Justin E.H. Smith‘s The Internet is Not What You Think It Is: A History, Philosophy, a Warning. Here is a taste: …there are ways in which the internet really does seem to […]
Organizing arts and culture workers at Andrew Carnegie’s library
In a brilliant essay at The Baffler, Daisy Pitkin, a union organizer and writer from Pittsburgh, weaves the story of Andrew Carnegie, the Johnstown Flood, and the recent unionization of workers at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. It is worth […]
Commonplace Book #214
The radical feminists’ assertion that a woman has absolute property in her body provoked mirth from those who, like Betsey [Fox Genovese], knew that the modern Left had arisen to oppose the bourgeois theory of absolute property in anything. Betsey […]
How small towns survive
According to writer Tim Holt, they need a “Plan B.” Here is a taste of his piece at Zocalo Public Square: Mount Shasta, California, and Ashland, Oregon did it right. Located in the California–Oregon border region where I live, they avoided […]
What if Disney left Florida?
The governor of Colorado has rolled-out the red carpet for Disney. Here is Dana Milbank: Mickey Mouse needs a sanctuary city. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Hades) got his state legislature this week to abolish the favorable tax arrangement that brought Disney World to Orlando and […]
We are starting to understand why Madison Cawthorn is so obsessed with GOP orgies
I will let Politico explain the latest in the ongoing saga of the Christian Right U.S. congressman from North Carolina. Here is a taste of Michael Kruse’s piece: Photographs obtained by POLITICO appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican […]