This week’s unicorns consider education at all levels, parenting and personhood, sandwiches, and self-help.
Archives for October 2023
Edward Garrison Draper is admitted to the Maryland bar
His admission came 166 years after he first applied to the bar and was denied. Here is Sydney Trent at The Washington Post: Edward Garrison Draper was more prepared to be a lawyer than most White attorneys in the mid-19th […]
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has a podcast. Some thoughts on the first episode:
As Calder McHugh writes at Politico: “Whether you’re looking to understand Mike Johnson the man or Mike Johnson the politician, you don’t have to dig deep. It’s already all there on tape. All you have to do is listen.” You […]
Melting Robert E. Lee
The Lee statue at the center of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was just melted. Here is Teo Armus and Hadley Green at The Washington Post: It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee. […]
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:
New York Times: “Trumpism is running the House”
It’s official. With the election of Mike Johnson to Speaker of the House the Trump wing of the Republican Party–and especially its Christian Right faction–is now running the House of Representatives. As I wrote yesterday: Johnson was elected to the […]
Civics Education is Moral Education—and It’s Essential
Pass out the critical documents. Watch the students read, discuss, and grow.
American secularization hasn’t followed the script that secularization theory would predict
Secularization in the U.S. hasn’t proceeded along the lines that secularization theory predicted. Why not? What does it all mean?
What the Christian Right is saying about Mike Johnson
We covered a lot of the responses at today’s evangelical roundup. Here’s more: David Barton and his Wallbuilders gang are over the moon. Johnson has a long history with Wallbuilders. Tim Barton says that Wallbuilders have been praying for a […]
Evangelical roundup for October 26, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? The New Apostolic Reformation and poor people. It looks like The New Republic is discovering the charismatic wing of evangelical Christianity. As caucus season nears, evangelicals in Iowa are keeping an eye on Israel. […]
Who is Mike Johnson?Â
The new speaker of the House has strong ties to the Christian Right
Here’s to the losers
If your whole identity is built on grievance and bitterness, the worst thing that can happen is to actually win.
Mike Johnson is the 56th Speaker of the House
I will have more to say about this in tomorrow’s feature at CURRENT. In the meantime, here is CNN: The Republican-led House elected Rep. Mike Johnson as the new House speaker on Wednesday – a major leadership change that comes three […]
Your Grandma Isn’t Cute
What does it mean to live well in old age?
“Some college”: The category that shows benefits of small colleges for students
When we consider college completion rates, the type of institution matters. Small private colleges have the lowest drop-out rates of all.
Mike Johnson wins first round of GOP Speaker of the House voting, but he doesn’t have a majority
The House GOP is trying to pick another Speaker nominee after Tom Emmer dropped out of the race earlier today. In the first round of closed-door voting, Louisiana’s Mike Johnson garnered the most votes: Since Fleischman received the lowest number […]
Danielle Allen: There are three parties in the House of Representatives and the Democratic Party is the largest
Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen believes that Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the House Democrats, should be Speaker of the House. Why? Because she believes there are actually THREE parties in the House: The Freedom Caucus, the Old Republican Party, […]
Any House member who voted to certify the 2020 election has no real chance of being Speaker of the House in today’s GOP
Earlier today, the GOP caucus chose Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer as its candidate for Speaker of the House. Hours later Emmer dropped out of the running. This leaves five candidates: Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee Mark […]
Jenna Ellis flips in the Georgia election fraud case. Gives an emotional apology.
First Sidney Powell took a plea deal. Now Jenna Ellis, a former Trump attorney, has taken a plea deal. She was Giuliani’s right-hand woman in attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Learn more about her here. Ellis cried through a […]
Mintz: “A hard rain is about to fall” on higher education
Here is the University of Houston historian at Inside Higher Ed. He is talking about higher education in the wake of this and this and the first paragraph of this. The events of the past few days will, I think, […]