It’s really interesting to hear from a conservative like Sullivan who clearly loves his home country. Sullivan’s tweet about Elizabeth’s character is particularly poignant. I am sure he will write something longer on the queen’s death, but for now here […]
Archives for September 2022
Oberlin College pays more than $36 million to a local bakery to settle a racial profiling case
Here is Anemona Hartocollis of The New York Times: Oberlin College, known as a bastion of progressive politics, said on Thursday that it would pay $36.59 million to a local bakery that said it had been defamed and falsely accused […]
Eugene Robinson remembers Queen Elizabeth II
The Washington Post columnist calls the queen “the last of her kind.” Here is a taste: I was The Post’s London bureau chief in the early 1990s, when Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana was falling apart in the worst possible […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “How to Be an Activist Historian“ Timothy Larsen, “REVIEW: How’s that Post-Christian Thing Goin’ for Ya?“ Nadya Williams, “Gorbachev’s Legacy: Moscow (Still) Doesn’t Believe in Tears“ John Fea, […]
The Ministering Stranger
Lest we forget: The care of neighbors matters
Evangelical roundup for September 8, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Creation care and Georgia evangelicals. Racism at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center continues to promote this guy: Evangelicals want more Christians in America. Latino evangelicals Anne Kennedy of The […]
Critical race theory opponents at Grove City College are still not satisfied
As the new academic year begins, the anti-CRT crowd at Grove City College is still not happy. Get up to speed on this story here. Here is the latest post at the “Save GCC from CRT” website: On May 13, […]
Biden Defends Democracy
The president’s speech at Independence Hall was appropriate and necessary
Chris Lehmann remembers Barbara Ehrenreich
We lost a great cultural critic and writer last week. I have benefited immensely over the years from Barbara Ehrenreich‘s work on social class in America. She is well-known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By […]
Can the GOP be saved?
No. Or at least that’s what longtime Republican insider and former Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol believes. The guy who tried to tap David French to run against Donald Trump in 2016 is now organizing to defeat pro-Trump candidates in […]
REVIEW: Pilgrims Who Did More than Survive in A Strange Land
Centuries in, the tension between Catholic ideals and the American experience remains taut and troubled
Eugene Debs: “We never hear of Capital Day, not because Capital has no day, but because every day is Capital Day.”
OK–I realize I am a day late here, but if you read Eugene Debs‘s 1903 Labor Day message you will understand why that is OK. According to Debs, “The struggle in which we are now engaged will end only when […]
How the populist tables have turned
Over Labor Day weekend I reread Michael Kazin‘s 1998 book The Populist Persuasion: An American History and was once again reminded that throughout the course of our nation’s history populism has appeared on both the right and the left. (For […]
GOP success in November rests on the votes of women
Republican women voters are skeptical about the direction their party is moving and there is a good chance they will voice their skepticism in the November 2022 Senate races. Here is Natalie Allison at Politico: Republicans this election cycle thought […]
The Author’s Corner with Jane Hooper
Jane Hooper is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate History Programs at George Mason University. This interview is based on her new book, Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Ohio University Press, 2022). JF: […]
INTERVIEW: Christopher Shannon on American Catholic History
Shannon’s new book American Pilgrimage extends an invitation: Come and see
The Author’s Corner with Zach Fredman
Zach Fredman is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University. This interview is based on his new book, The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). JF: What led you […]
Evangelical roundup for September 5, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Should Labor Day be a Christian holiday? Lisa Sharon Harper on Biden’s Philadelphia speech (thread) Fox News covers Michael Gerson’s scathing anti-Trump column. Tim Keller being Tim Keller: Evangelical leaders respond to the Matt […]
Gorbachev’s Legacy: Moscow (Still) Doesn’t Believe in Tears
Over three decades after his resignation ended the USSR, how much has changed?
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Barbara Ehrenreich, RIP Historian Michael Kazin on Labor Day The difference between economists and historians “When in this story does Michael Corleone really become an American?” Oliver Cromwell in America […]