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Archives for November 2023

“I began to feel like there’s a lot that not’s being said and a lot that’s not being written”

John Fea   |  November 27, 2023

The one thing that I did start doing that year (2020) was talk on the phone. I’ve never been a phone talker, but, of course, that’s all you had for a while. And I would have long conversations on the […]

What is going on at The Ohio State University?

John Fea   |  November 27, 2023

And I am not talking about three straight football losses to Michigan. John Sailer of the National Association of Scholars, a political conservative education advocacy organization, recently obtained 800 pages of “Diversity Faculty Recruitment Reports” from The Ohio State University. […]

Current’s 2023 Best of the Net Nominations

John Fea   |  November 27, 2023

Please join us in congratulating our nominees for this year’s Best of the Net, an annual awards-based anthology for “communities of online literary magazines, journals, and individuals that do the work of creating our digital literary landscape.” These are: “Tis […]

Steven Mintz asks: “Can you be an activist and a serious scholar?”

John Fea   |  November 27, 2023

Here is a taste of his piece at Insider Higher Ed: There is an important space where academia and activism intersect. “Public scholarship” and “engaged scholarship” can be invaluable in addressing social, political, and environmental issues. These works can provide rigorous […]

The Author’s Corner with Emily Brooks

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 27, 2023

Emily Brooks is a Historian and Curriculum Writer at the New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools. This interview is based on her new book, Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World […]

Evangelical roundup for November 27, 2023

John Fea   |  November 27, 2023

What is happening in Evangelical land? Do you have a story for the roundup? Watch: Tim Alberta on how Trumpism has divided evangelicals. Also here. Stay tuned, I will be interviewing Alberta on CSPAN in the coming days. Nikki Haley […]

Coffee in the Old World’s New World

Agnes Howard   |  November 27, 2023

Starbucks Roasteries ask little of us but cash

American dogs

Elizabeth Stice   |  November 27, 2023

Our tastes in dog breeds have followed a trend of rising sophistication in certain respects.

Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  November 26, 2023

A few things online that caught my attention this week: The Atlantic on Reconstruction–then and now. Why are we so fascinated with JFK? What “industry” are you in? Seamus Heaney and “stuff”. Annotating books on TikTok and Instagram. Socialist summer […]

Support Current on Small Business Saturday!

John Fea   |  November 25, 2023

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A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup

Nadya Williams   |  November 25, 2023

This roundup is extra-long and a good bit of it is about orienting our loves and our reading towards the good, the true, and the beautiful.

Colleges chosen for general election presidential debates

John Fea   |  November 24, 2023

They are Texas State University, Lafayette College (PA), Virginia State University, and The University of Utah. Here is Doug Lederman at Inside Higher Ed: The Commission on Presidential Debates has chosen four colleges and universities to play host to the presidential and […]

Happy Thanksgiving!

John Fea   |  November 23, 2023

We are off today! I hope you get a chance to spend some time with family and friends.

Thanksgiving: mixing the flavors of civil religion, war, and commerce

John H. Haas   |  November 23, 2023

Forget Squanto. Our current Thanksgiving has its roots in war and commerce.

The forgotten virtue of gratitude

John Fea   |  November 22, 2023

Our annual Thanksgiving tradition here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. I wrote this Inside Higher Ed piece on gratitude in November 2008.  I have had to remind myself of this piece a lot in the last couple of years.–JF It was a […]

Farewell to JFK

Patrick Lacroix   |  November 22, 2023

At the sixtieth anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, it’s memory itself that is fading

The Evangelical Theological Society elects its first woman president

John Fea   |  November 21, 2023

Her name is Karen Jobes and she is emeritus professor of New Testament and exegesis at Wheaton College. Here is Stefani McDade at Christianity Today: The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) has instated its first female president in 75 years. Karen […]

What is a liberal?

John Fea   |  November 21, 2023

Cass Sunstein, a professor at Harvard Law School writing at The New York Times, defines liberalism in 34 points: See how Sunstein unpacks these points here.

Rosalynn Carter’s political partnership

Daniel K. Williams   |  November 21, 2023

Rosalynn Carter modeled a rare third option: a joint political partnership in which her public service and policy work would be inseparably linked with her husband’s.

No More Conspiracy Theories

David Head   |  November 21, 2023

JFK’s assassination still haunts us—and for good reason

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