Why did the unicorn cross the road? To get to the rest of the herd! Behold this week’s Arena links roundup.
Archives for 2023
Is Kevin McCarthy leaving Congress?
Here is Olivia Beavers at Politico: Kevin McCarthy is considering resigning from the House before the end of his term, two people familiar with the matter told POLITICO. The deposed former speaker has made clear he plans to stay at […]
Call for Papers: “Intellectual Histories of the American Revolution”
I just got this call for papers in the mail. It looks like a great conference and they are even willing to pay your way to Ireland! CFP: Intellectual Histories of the American Revolution: Kylemore Abbey, Ireland, 15-17 August 2024 […]
John McWhorter: Ibram X. Kendi is not a “grifter”
I continue to be fascinated by this Ibram X. Kendi story. One of Kendi’s harshest critics over the last several years has been Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter. In a piece at The New York Times, McWhorter defends Kendi […]
Copper spoon found at Jamestown
This is a great little Facebook post from the Jamestown Rediscovery Project: What’s an archaeologist’s white whale? A copper alloy spoon, apparently! Director of Archaeology Dave Givens always wanted to find a copper spoon – it was one thing he […]
Pamela Paul: “a person can oppose racism on firm ethical or philosophical or pragmatic grounds without embracing Kendi’s conception of antiracism.”
Pamela Paul, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is the latest to use the Ibram X. Kendi controversy at Boston University to critique Kendi’s philosophy of “antiracism.” Here is Paul: “…many major universities, corporations, nonprofit groups […]
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:
Abortion and Pro-Life Politics: A Conversation, Part II
“The United States is a liberty theme park. When we’re bullies, we lose.”
Are you editing or baking with small children?
Sometimes you really just can’t tell
Cornel West drops the Green Party. He will run for president as an independent
We’ve been keeping an eye on the democratic socialist presidential candidacy of Cornel West. First, he was the candidate of the People’s Party. Then he was the candidate of the Green Party. Now he is running as an independent. Get […]
Evangelical roundup for October 5, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals who support Trump is “about as unChristian as it gets.” A new book on Billy Graham crusades and evangelical worship. A “See You at the Pole“” update. Warner Pacific University gets a grant […]
Abortion and Pro-Life Politics: A Conversation, Part I
In this moment, there’s no substitute for a deep historical understanding of the politics of abortion
Rachel Lu on the future of the family
Why have we as a society stopped building families, and how might we reverse this trend? Rachel Lu offers some answers.
Court evangelical Robert Jeffress says the 10 Commandments are the answer to this “chaotic time in our culture.” You can’t make this stuff up.
Since 2016 Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, has championed a president who is a pathological liar, adulterer, lover of Mammon, and business fraud. Now this court evangelical of court evangelicals is promoting a book on the […]
The “single most blistering Clery report I have ever read, ever.” Liberty University has failed to keep students safe.
Here is Susan Svrluga at The Washington Post: Liberty University has failed for years to keep its campus safe and repeatedly violated the federal law that specifies how it should do so, according to preliminary confidential findings from an Education […]
Donald Trump and white Fabio Jesus are in court this week
“Dom Lucre” (his real name is Dominick McGee”) is an internet personality who, according to this bio, is an Army veteran, Hip-Hop music label executive, financial adviser, 2020 election denier, Trump supporter, and “Christian missionary.” On Monday night he shared […]
NBC News tackles Seven Mountain Dominionism
Here is NBC News’s Grapevine Podcast. You might hear a familiar voice 🙂
The GOP clownshow rolls on
In 1910, the House of Representatives voted to remove Speaker of the House Joseph Cannon, an anti-progressive Republican (as opposed to the progressive Republican presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft) from Illinois. Here is Hillsdale College historian Joseph Postell: […]
Children’s classics find a new life in Classical languages
Latin and Greek translations of beloved children’s classics are a trend worth celebrating.
REVIEW: “War and Books are Incompatible”
A Ukrainian diarist gives the world a disturbing glimpse of a ghastly war