Archives for April 2022

A guy on TikTok explains why history degrees aren’t useless

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He goes by the handle @Scootcork and his TikTok post is apparently going viral. Watch: @scootcork #stitch with @education.forum dude is just salty that there isn’t an NFT major #history #usa #college #teacher #ushistory ♬ Love You So – The […]

The return of Ben Franklin

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Historian Joseph Adelman calls our attention to a small Ben Franklin revival. Here is his piece at Slate: Benjamin Franklin is having a moment. For decades he has hovered on the periphery of popular representations of the American founding. This […]

How the Right gets Gramsci wrong

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Check out Alan Wald‘s longform review of Laura Marriss’s translation of Jean-Yves FrĂ©tignĂ©’s To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci. There is a lot in Wald’s piece, but I want to call your attention to this passage: […]

Trump is worried about what historians will say about him

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Here is Princeton historian Julian Zelizer at The Atlantic: As an academic historian, I never expected to find myself in a videoconference with Donald Trump. But one afternoon last summer—a day after C-SPAN released a poll of historians who ranked him just […]

Ted Cruz endorses Josh Mandel in Ohio Senate race

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Ah Christian Right politicians! You’ve got to love the way they have each other’s backs. Josh Mandel is running for Senate in Ohio in the pro-Trump lane. He does not believe in the separation of church and state, thinks the […]

The Supreme Court has always been political

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Here is Joshua Zeitz at Politico: It’s not every day that the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice conspires to overturn the results of a free and fair election. Yet that’s where we are. The stunning revelation of text messages […]

This is not Christianity

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Preacher Rick Warzywak prayed before a Donald Trump rally this past weekend in Washington, Michigan. Watch: For those, for whatever reason, cannot see the video, here is what Warzywak prayed: Father in heaven, we firmly believe that Donald Trump is […]

Viktor Orban wins another term in Hungary. Calls Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky one of the “opponents” he had to overcome

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Here is CNN: Hungary’s authoritarian leader and longtime Russian ally, Viktor Orban, has declared victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, clinching a fourth consecutive term in power. Orban’s Fidesz party had a commanding lead with 71% of the votes counted, Hungary’s national elections […]

Evangelical roundup for April 4, 2022

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What is happening in Evangelical land? Randall Balmer on the Mark Galli sexual harassment charges. Evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht does not want you to be fooled: Jim Wallis on mixing religion and politics. Two important evangelical voices meet: Franklin […]

Sunday night odds and ends

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The cult of Stalin intellectuals Teaching with history with Howard Zinn’s People’s History Integrating college hoops What did Jefferson mean by the pursuit of happiness? Thomas Meaney reviews Jean-Yves FrĂ©tignĂ©, To Live Is To Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci […]

What is popular this week at Current?

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Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Alan Godwin, “Running from the Chapel“ Nadya Williams, “Putin’s Heritage of Lethal Incompetence“ Felicia Wu Song, “The Unbearable Lightness of the First TikTok War“ Greg Williams: “DC DISPATCH: Poisoned by […]