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Archives for March 2023

Is Florida a “bridge between the American and Israeli people?”

John Fea   |  March 28, 2023

Ron DeSantis seems to think so. He is heading to Israel next month because this is what GOP presidential candidates do these days to secure the evangelical vote. The following press release says “At a time of unnecessarily strained relations […]

Images of the Day

John Fea   |  March 28, 2023

Andrew Clyde: Georgia ninth congressional district: George Santos: NY third congressional district: Anna Paulina Luna: Florida’s thirteenth congressional district: Thomas Massie: Kentucky’s fourth congressional district: Andy Ogles: Tennessee’s 5th congressional district. The home of The Covenant School: Lauren Boebert: Colorado’s […]

In early republican New York, food was a “public good”

John Fea   |  March 28, 2023

Over at JSTOR Daily, Matthew Wills introduces us to the work of historian Gergerly Baics. In a 2016 piece in Urban History he argued that early republican New York was “characterized by centralized, municipal food provisioning.” Baics developed these thoughts […]

Have cars made our lives more dangerous and less democratic?

John Fea   |  March 28, 2023

Over at Jacobin, Jacob Sugarman reviews Daniel Knowles’s book Carmaggedon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It. Here is a taste: On February 3, a Norfolk Southern train approximately 150 cars long derailed near the town of East […]

REVIEW: The Genesis of Gender

Andrea Turpin   |  March 28, 2023

In Abigail Favale’s view, our wholeness as individuals and communities is at stake

The religion of antinatalism: something old, something new, something borrowed…

Nadya Williams   |  March 28, 2023

Last week, information about a curious organization—with its exceedingly curious website— briefly circulated on Twitter: Stop Having Kids.Org As the website name so clearly articulates already, this is an organization devoted to the cause of antinatalism, “a philosophical and ethical […]

GOP Senators criticize Trump’s use of the J6 Choir at his Waco rally

John Fea   |  March 27, 2023

If you don’t know about the J6 choir, get up to speed here. John Cornyn (TX), Lindsey Graham (SC), John Thune (SD), and Thom Tillis (NC) have weighed-in. Here is Sahil Kapur and Scott Wong at NBC News: Top Senate […]

The shooting today at a Nashville Christian school: Some early responses

John Fea   |  March 27, 2023

The Covenant School is an elementary school affiliated with Covenant Presbyterian Church, a congregation in the Presbyterian Church in America. (Since the shooting this morning, Covenant Presbyterian Church appears to have taken down its website.) The school is a member […]

The 2016 and 2020 court evangelicals continue to line-up behind Trump. Today it’s Paula White’s turn.

John Fea   |  March 27, 2023

First it was Robert Jeffress (although, to be fair, his speech last weekend in Waco was not an endorsement). Then it was Mike Huckabee. Now Paula White, Trump’s so-called “spiritual adviser.” David Brody, the Trump court evangelical journalist, broke the […]

David French on Trump’s Waco rally

John Fea   |  March 27, 2023

We wrote about this rally over the weekend. Check out our posts here (Robert Jeffress) and here (J6 Choir). Here is French at The New York Times: The most telling exchange in Donald Trump’s Waco, Texas, rally on Saturday didn’t […]

The Author’s Corner with Leslie A. Schwalm

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 27, 2023

Leslie A. Schwalm is Professor Emeritus of History and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. This interview is based on her new book, Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America (University of North Carolina […]

Evangelical roundup for March 27, 2023

John Fea   |  March 27, 2023

What is happening in Evangelical land? Russell Moore on a potential Trump indictment in the Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels hush money case in New York: If I were on a jury in this case, I would have a moral obligation to […]

Christian Nationalism: Stew or Seasoning?

Jesse Smith   |  March 27, 2023

It’s not simply a question of taste

Your favorite professor might be a dirtbag

Elizabeth Stice   |  March 27, 2023

Your favorite professor might be kind of a dirtbag. Dirtbag, in this case, referring to climbing subculture and people willing to eschew running water and good housing to spend their time scaling rock faces. According to climbinghouse.com, “dirtbagging emerged out […]

In Waco, Trump plays a version of the “Star Spangled Banner” by the “J6 Choir” as scenes from the US Capitol attack flash across the screens.

John Fea   |  March 26, 2023

Learn more here. And Robert Jeffress blessed it all. Watch: Here is the full song from the “J6 Choir,” a group of inmates who are in prison for their involvement in the events of January 6, 2021.

Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  March 26, 2023

A few things online that caught my attention this week: The four foot tall Quaker prophet If Trump is indicted, the founders would be pleased Emily Tankin reviews Eric Alterman’s We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over […]

Mike Huckabee is the first 2016 and 2020 court evangelical to endorse Donald Trump

John Fea   |  March 26, 2023

Huckabee is out early with the endorsement. He compares Trump to the “Soup Nazi” on Seinfeld. Will Robert Jeffress follow? Watch:

Donald Trump and Robert Jeffress are back together again in Waco.

John Fea   |  March 25, 2023

Robert Jeffress, the Trump court evangelical who says he is not yet ready to endorse a candidate for president in 2024, sure looked like he was back in the tank for Trump today in Waco. I cannot seem to embed […]

The “Five Families” of the House Republican Caucus

John Fea   |  March 25, 2023

As a fan of The Godfather, I couldn’t pass up this Washington Post piece by Adrian Blanco, Marianna Sotomayor, and Hannah Dormido. Here is a taste: It all started with a meeting that then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) convened after […]

Who is Chris Rufo?

John Fea   |  March 25, 2023

He was virtually unknown until he appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show in September 2020 to attack critical race theory. At the time he was a “fellow” at the Discovery Institute, a conservative think tank best known for its […]

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