I was unaware of this story until I ran across Carol McKinley’s reporting today at The Denver Gazette. I’ll let her explain: Nearly a half-century ago, a patch of human skin, stretched and tanned like an animal hide, was hand-carried to […]
Archives for October 2022
Advanced Placement African American Studies: a progress report
Back in August we brought your attention to Advanced Placement African American Studies. Sixty high schools around the country are piloting this new course during the 2022-2023 academic year. Over at CNN, Brandon Tensley reports on how things are going […]
Evangelical roundup for October 3, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals for Lula. The rise of evangelicalism in Argentina. Evangelicals for Chris Jones in Arkansas. Richard Cizik joins an interfaith panel on Christian nationalism. Shane on the death penalty: And Shane’s forthcoming book: Randall […]
Dropping out of College: A Crisis We Must Address
Amid deep structural challenges, remember the power of a personal response
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: “When bad thinking happens to good people” Boys and men are struggling in the United States Newsletters, Substacks, and journalism Steve Futterman reviews John McEuen, Will the Circle Be Unbroken: […]
If elected governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano will ban critical race theory, “pornographic” literature, and “pole dancing” in schools.
Yes, you read that correctly. Here is Alia Shoab at Insider: Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is the Republican candidate for governor, said he would ban pole dancing in schools if he was elected. “On day one, the sexualization […]
Evangelical leaders on Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard stunt
Peter Smith of the Associated Press reported on this last month. I must have missed his piece. If you are not familiar with my reference to DeSantis’s “Martha’s Vineyard stunt” get up to speed here. Here are some quotes from […]
Patricia Limerick is fired from the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West
Limerick, arguably the most prominent historian of the American West in the country, is the Center‘s co-founder and has run it for thirty-six years. Here is Jason Blevins at The Colorado Sun: Patty Limerick, an iconic professor, author and scholar […]
What if we took the originalist interpretation of the Constitution to its logical endpoint?
Writer A.J. Jacobs, the author of The Year of Living Biblically, spent one month trying to live by the Constitution “as strictly and literally as possible.” And he did it in New York City no less! Here is a taste […]
David Dark on moral cowardice
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Why didn’t we impeach and remove this guy from office when we had the chance?
The latest from Trump’s social media platform: This post is inspired by Digby and David French. Here’s French: Of course not everyone agrees with me, Digby, or French.
Hollinger: “Today’s Christian nationalists want to shut down a conversation about what the implications of Christianity might be for the United States.”
Over at Public Seminar, Cal-Berkeley intellectual historian David Hollinger talks with New School historian Claire Potter about his forthcoming book, Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular. Here is a taste: CP: You suggested earlier […]