Here is WFXR reporter Rhian Lowndes: For the first time since multiple Title IX allegations involving mishandled sexual assault cases were made in lawsuits against Liberty University, WFXR News is hearing from one of the two dozen women accusing the […]
Archives for July 2022
The Kansas City Star on Josh Hawley’s manliness
The Missouri Senator’s hometown newspaper pulled no punches after seeing Hawley’s run through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: Josh Hawley is a laughingstock. During Thursday night’s televised hearings of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, coup […]
The Claremont Institute in the wake of January 6th
The conservative pro-Trump think tank has a John Eastman problem. Here is Marc Fisher and Isaac Stanley-Becker at The Washington Post: Early in 2016, as Donald Trump’s march toward the Republican presidential nomination gathered the air of inevitability, alumni of […]
Evangelical roundup for July 25, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelical politics: a call for renewal. David French: “There is no remaining Christian case for Trump.” Darryl Hart on conservative Presbyterians. Shane Claiborne endorses Ethan Hawke: Brazilian presidential candidates court the evangelical vote. A […]
Seeing Bathsheba
There’s more art history than you realize in your old children’s Bibles
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: A new development in the Emmett Till tragedy The best places to catch some baseball history Two new books on the state of American democracy The January 6th Committee and […]
Song of the Day
On climate change, ‘the perfect should not become the enemy of the good”
I just got home from a three-week research trip and my lawn is out of control. But I can’t mow it because it’s nearly 100-degrees here in Pennsylvania. (Ok, I can mow it, but I don’t want to pass out […]
Springsteen is going on tour. I don’t think I can afford to see him
Springsteen has upcoming shows in State College, Baltimore, Newark, Brooklyn, Philadelphia. Ticketmaster is selling some seats for as high as $4,300. The worst seats in the house are going for $185.00 before fees. For the last fifteen or so years […]
Here on Mutineer’s Island
“Enjoy”:
They were wrong
New York Times opinion columnists tell us what they got wrong: In our age of hyperpartisanship and polarization, when social media echo chambers incentivize digging in and doubling down, it’s not easy to admit you got something wrong. But here […]
Hawley on the run
Watch: Here is Phillip Bump in today’s Washington Post: Given everything that’s happened since, it’s easy to forget the role that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) played in validating Donald Trump’s effort to undermine the 2020 election results. In the weeks […]
AMAZING! (1969 edition)
Here’s Curt Gowdy: People I recognize in this video: Joe Garagiola, Lindsey Nelson, Joe DiMaggio, and Pearl Bailey. Do you recognize anyone else?
American democracy is dying
This is the diagnoses of Brian Klaas, a political scientist at University College London. Here is a taste of his piece at The Atlantic: I’ve spent the past 12 years studying the breakdown of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism […]
What did we learn last night about Trump and January 6, 2021?
Last night the January 6th Committee provided more evidence to prove that Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt, depraved, and immoral president in the United States history. Here is what we learned last night: Donald Trump ignored all […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “Trump Is Going Down and He Is Taking Evangelicals with Him“ Andrew F. Lang, “Democratic Spirit: Ulysses S. Grant at 200“ Kody W. Cooper, “Rethinking an Ethic of […]
A Savior Will Arise from Gettysburg and His Name Shall Be Mastriano
The Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate’s Christian nationalism on display
GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano gives a tour of the Pennsylvania senate chamber
Stay tuned. Tomorrow in my weekly feature at Current I will be writing about this video. Watch:
Meme of the Day
E.J. Dionne endorses Liz Cheney
Here is the liberal Washington Post columnist: Vote for Cheney. Now there is a sentence I never expected to write. Yes, I hope that every Democrat and every moderate and progressive-minded unaffiliated voter in Wyoming crosses into the Republican primary on Aug. […]