About a year ago, Current published Steven Waldman‘s piece “The Return of Local News.” Waldman is the president and cofounder of Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project. He also serves as chair of the Rebuild Local News Coalition. […]
Archives for April 2023
Evangelical roundup for April 3, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land: Nathaniel Belz, RIP I tell The Guardian that the Trump indictment will not hurt him with many of his most diehard evangelical followers. In California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas there are more Hispanic […]
REVIEW: The Middle Children of History
Do you think ChatGPT can write a novel? Read this book.
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: When Warren Harding paid mistress to stay silent. Dominic Green reviews Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope. Michael Kazin wonders if it is […]
Song of the Day
Asa Hutchinson is running for president
So far the 72-year-old former governor of Arkansas is the only one who has not gone ballistic about Trump’s recent indictment. This probably means he has no chance to win the nomination. Here is ABC News: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa […]
“The issue is not white supremacy, the issue is which whites will be supreme”
[History] cuts a lot of the bullshit. If somebody can just say “white supremacy,” it releases them from having to talk about something that my mentor C. Vann Woodward pointed out many years ago in discussing the disenfranchisement movement in […]
University of Virginia changes its name!
Watch UVA go all in for April Fools Day (with an endorsement from historian Chris Gehrz): Thanks for stopping by. If you want to learn more about CURRENT, check out our home page and our About page. We are supported […]
Asa Hutchinson: Trump should withdraw from the 2024 presidential race
Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, who many believe will run for president in 2024, called upon Donald Trump to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. Here is The Hill: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said Trump should “step aside” from the […]