They are all Republicans. Here is Nick Robertson at The Hill: A group of six Pennsylvania Republicans called on the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) to fire its president, Liz Magill, following backlash against comments she made at a House committee hearing […]
Archives for December 2023
What a 2025 Trump cabinet might look like
Axios is reporting that Trump is already considering cabinet appointments. For Vice-President, Trump is considering Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate and election denier Kari Lake, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, Florida representative […]
The elite university presidents who testified before Congress are taking the heat
I have yet to watch the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn testify before Congress on the matter of campus antisemitism. But it does not look very good. This clip is pretty damning: The blowback has been strong and bipartisan. […]
Robert Kagan: “Will the people who selfishly refuse to put their own ambitions at risk finally act to save our democracy?”
Last week we brought your attention to Robert Kagan’s Washington Post piece on the potential of a Trump dictatorship should he be elected in 2024. Kagan was back at the post yesterday with a piece titled, “The Trump dictatorship: How […]
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:
Reads of the year for the HIP (Harried Intellectual Parent): 2023
Here are my top reads of 2023, an eclectic, personal, and incomplete list that shows just how much I no longer care about people judging me for my wide-ranging tastes.
REVIEW: Christmas in the Round
The happiest season of all gets its due in The Oxford Handbook of Christmas
The Author’s Corner with Stuart McKee
Stuart McKee is Associate Professor of Design at the University of San Francisco. This interview is based on his new book, Indigenous Enlightenment: Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
Evangelical roundup for December 7, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? My interview with Tim Alberta, author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, will appear on CSPAN on these dates: Evangelicalism and secularism are on the rise in Latin America. Is the Evangelical […]
“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
It is time to settle once and for all the key debate: just how long should you leave your Christmas tree up?
The “Children of God” started as a California Jesus People community and became an authoritarian cult. And it’s all captured in photos.
Some of you may remember our interview with historian Larry Eskridge in Episode 113 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. Larry is our foremost authority on the Jesus People and he is the author of God’s Forever Family: […]
Rutgers historian David Greenberg will publish a biography of civil rights leader John Lewis
Here is Olafimihan Oshin at The Hill: A biography of late civil rights pioneer and former Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), which will draw upon hundreds of interviews and classified documents and files, is in the works. Publishing company Simon & Schuster announced […]
Harvard youth poll: 18-to-29-year-olds are not happy with Biden, but they will still vote for him over Trump in 2024
Here are some takeaways from a national poll of 2,098 18-to-29-year -olds released yesterday by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School. Learn more here. Watch:
Why aren’t there more places like the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research?
If I had my way, I would leave academia and try to create a non-profit like the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. If I could find funding for such a project, I would buy and old church and repurpose it […]
The dark language of Donald Trump’s campaign for president
How much lower can the former president go? Here is a taste of Ian Prasd Philbrick’s and Lyna Bentahar’s piece at The New York Times: He has made baldly antidemocratic statements, praising autocratic leaders like China’s Xi Jinping and continuing […]
The Author’s Corner with Marvin Chiles
Marvin Chiles is Assistant Professor of African American History at Old Dominion University. This interview is based on his new book, The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond (University of Virginia Press, 2023). JF: […]
Perfectly Awful
The uncompromising message and compromised artistry of Killers of the Flower Moon
What to get the kids you know for Christmas this year
Not sure what to get the kids you know and/or parent for Christmas this year? This gift guide is for you!
North Carolina GOP congressman Patrick McHenry will not seek another term in the House of Representatives
Most Americans outside of Western North Carolina had no idea who the bow tie-wearing North Carolina congressman was until we saw him working the house floor in January 2023 trying to get Kevin McCarthy elected Speaker of the House. Recently […]
Is Oklahoma senator James Lankford conspiratorial enough for The Federalist?
Preview in new tab Here is The Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway, the daughter of a Missouri-Synod Lutheran minister. Career Democrat and ABC host George Stephanopoulos completely emasculated Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma this weekend on his Sunday show. Right at […]