The Democratic Party will return to Chicago in 2024. It will be held from August 19-22. You can get the details from any news website, but we thought we would call your attention to previous Chicago conventions. This will be […]
Archives for April 2023
“The Left is more likely…to hold men responsible for their own problems and advise them to purge themselves of their ‘toxic masculinity.'”
Over at Commonweal, Brendan Ruberry reviews Richard V. Reeves’s book, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It. Here is a taste: “…today, around the industrialized world, men seem […]
In the GOP it’s “the elites vs. the rabble”
Here is a taste of Sam Adler-Bell’s New York Times op-ed: “The One Things Trump Has That DeSantis Never Will“: Thus far, Mr. DeSantis has had greater success with party elites. By pairing aggressive stances on the culture wars with […]
Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey Jr. is running for re-election in 2024
Good news from Pennsylvania! Here is John Salant from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: U.S. Sen. Bob Casey announced Monday that he will run for re-election next year, a boon for Democrats in a must-win race for the party to hold the […]
What if students WANT the humanities in their college curriculum?
Most of the time, the well-merited jeremiads about the state of the humanities in American universities come from scholars. At the same time, most of the attacks themselves come from university administrators or system-level administrators (for state universities). But last […]
Evangelical roundup for April 10, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Latino evangelicals against DeSantis’s immigration policies. Nashville’s The Covenant School will move to a new church for the remainder of the academic year. Evangelicals and premarital sex. Evangelicals are always renewing and reviving. Shane […]
Revisiting the Cuban Missile Crisis
āWhatās important,” Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reflected in October 1962, “is not to cry for the dead or to avenge them, but to save those who might die if the conflict continues.ā That so many didn’t die, then, was the result of Khrushchev’s, […]
The Author’s Corner with Joseph Giacomelli
Joseph Giacomelli is Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Duke Kunshan University. This interview is based on his new book, Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America (University of Chicago Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write […]
What are you reading?
Billy Budd is one of Herman Melvilleās most enigmatic writings. It involves an inexplicable animosity toward a handsome sailor, an accidental death, and a verdict of ambiguous justness. The captain of the ship on which the events take place is […]
Caledonia
Is anything more necessary than music that tells us who we are?
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Real historical documents or fake historical documents? Take the quiz. When George W. Bush was a hero. Can national flood insurance keep pace with climate change? Climate change and home […]
N.T. Wright on Easter
Happy Easter!
Commonplace Book #254
I am convinced that the climate of skepticism, which for the last two hundred years has made it unfashionable and even embarrassing to suggest that Jesus’s resurrection really happened, was never and is not now itself a neutral thing, sociologically […]
The chair of the Bob Jones University board of trustees steps down
We covered the recent fundamentalist coup at Bob Jones here. Mark Wingfield has the latest at Baptist News Global. John Lewis, the chairman of the Bob Jones University board of trustees, has resigned. Here is Wingfield: …[President] Pettit resigned March […]
More than meets the eye: Emma Green’s profile of Hillsdale College this week in the New Yorker
Earlier this week, Emma Green had an in-depth profile of Hillsdale College in the New Yorker. Intriguingly titled “The Christian Liberal Arts School at the Heart of the Culture Wars,” the profile emphasized Hillsdale’s connections to the Republic Party. But […]
What is popular this week at Current?
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LONG FORM: The Carrot, the Onion, and the Pomegranate
This food is adequate to our need
What would C. Vann Woodward say?
James Cobb, the Spalding Distinguished professor of history emeritus at the University of Georgia, is the author of C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian. It is the most satisfying work of American history I have read thus far in 2023. You […]
Evangelical roundup for April 6, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Why aren’t Ukrainian-American evangelicals lobbying for their homeland? Black evangelicals and Christian nationalism. Evangelicals who care about refugees: How the Trump area changed Chapel Hill Bible Church. Jim Wallis on comparing Donald Trump to […]
What is happening with DEI in colleges and universities?
I am hearing more and more stories like the one Tabia Lee tells at Compact. Here is a taste: This month, I was fired from my position as faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education […]