This could be the last semester for the Manhattan-based Christian college. Here is Emily Belz at Christianity Today: The financial crisis in Christian higher education has hit The King’s College, a Christian liberal arts school in New York City, with […]
Archives for February 2023
Jimmy Carter: Evangelical politician
Here is Lori Amber Roessner at The Conversation: Carter continued to share his understanding of the gospel with journalists and their audiences in a plain-spoken manner, even though it was not always advantageous to his political fortunes. For instance, after […]
Why did Fox News lie to its viewers about the 2020 election?
David French offers a theory at his New York Times column: Fox isn’t just the news hub of right-wing America, it’s a cultural cornerstone, and its business model is so successful that it’s more accurate to think of the rest […]
How dangerous is Ron DeSantis?
Not as dangerous as many progressive think he is, according to Damon Linker. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: To judge by several early polls, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has a decent shot of […]
Pitch-clocks, pizza boxes, and infielders playing where they are supposed to be playing. Welcome to the 2023 baseball season!
I’ll let veteran sportswriter Rick Reilly take it from here: I used to love baseball, but I stopped watching when games got slower than sloth races. Last year, the average game was 3 hours and 3 minutes. No, thank you. I […]
The Author’s Corner with Elliott West
Elliott West is History Consultant at the University of Arkansas. This interview is based on his new book, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Continental […]
REVIEW: “Nana Really Wants Me to Do This”
In Seventy Times Seven, mercy, pain, and justice meet in unanticipated ways
A new series of ancient biographies offers yet another reason to love the genre
In the mid-second century BCE, Cato the Elder, Rome’s most conservative politician of his day, published his Origines, the first Roman history in Latin. Only fragments of the work survive, but we know that Cato’s history featured an unusual approach […]
Florida’s HB 999 is not about free speech or academic freedom, it’s about politics
Last week the Florida House of Representatives introduced House Bill 999: “An act relating to public postsecondary educational institutions.” Read it here. Here are some of the details Here are some of my takeaways:
The Author’s Corner with Samantha Barbas
Samantha Barbas is Professor of Legal History and Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo School of Law. This interview is based on her new book, Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom […]
Evangelical roundup for February 27, 2023
What is going on Evangelical Land?: The Kings College needs $2.6 million to survive. So far it has raised $178,000. Brazilian evangelicals and political patience. Randall Balmer on Jimmy Carter. Mike Cosper on how evangelicals reacted to the Asbury Revival. […]
FORUM: Tending to a Tradition
Book reviewing is a form of commentary upon which many of our greatest goods depend
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Coffee and happiness Putin and God The GOP as the W.W.E. A Black professor in an “anti-racist hell.” And more here. Charles Mathewes reviews Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and Its Discontents […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:
The Author’s Corner with Thomas Sheppard
Thomas Sheppard is Assistant Professor of Military History at the Marine Corps University Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. This interview is based on his book, Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic (Naval Institute Press, […]
REVIEW: Decency Doesn’t Stop at the Border
Timely reflections for the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of UkraineÂ
What I am reading: Brian Scoles
How did I become a quirky reader? In large part, I blame it on the World Book Encyclopedia. I can only imagine how many hours I joyfully wasted on my guilty pleasure. This probably tells you something about the social […]
Our Asbury Revival roundups come to an end. Thanks for reading.
While I am sympathetic to the spiritual experience that took place over the last two weeks at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, I tried to cover the revival here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home as a curator or […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 23, 2023 (10:50PM)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. This is the last night of services at Asbury University. Tonight was the Collegiate Day of Prayer. Asbury was scheduled to host this […]
A conversation on Wendell Berry’s The Need to be Whole
Literary scholar Jeff Bilbro and philosopher Josh Hochschild discuss Wendell Berry’s controversial book The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. The event is sponsored by the National Association of Scholars. Watch: