Over at The New York Times, David Waldstein writes about a new development in the culture of Major League Baseball. In the old days walk-off wins were “celebrated at home plate with the player who scored.” But at some point […]
Archives for 2023
Billy Sunday on the working man, 1917
Los Angeles Evening Express, September 3, 1917.
Evangelical roundup for September 4, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? The president of World Relief calls on Congress to continue to support PEPFAR. Has Trump wrapped-up the evangelical vote in Iowa? Daniel K. Williams: “People hold on to their politics when they stop attending […]
Remembering Jim Abbott’s no-hitter
Thirty years ago today a one-handed baseball player named Jim Abbott pitched a no-hitter. Watch:
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: College dorms Labor Day in American history Lionel Trilling and Cold War liberalism Bill Richardson, RIP The decline of civics What happens when Americans stop going to church? Technology and […]
Labor Day weekend in Santa Ana, California churches, 1920
Joe Manchin is 13 points behind Jim Justice in potential 2024 West Virginia U.S. Senate race
According to a new poll, West Virginia governor Jim Justice leads incumbent Joe Manchin by thirteen points in the state’s 2024 U.S. Senate race. If Justice wins next November, the GOP will pick-up a seat. Justice is a Republican. Manchin […]
Cornel West is at 2% in a new Wall Street Journal poll
According to a new poll released today by The Wall Street Journal, Joe Biden (46%) and Donald Trump (46%) are running neck and neck in a potential 2024 presidential matchup. But when support for Green Party candidate Cornel West is […]
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust: “Education asks you to change”
I am trying to get former Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust on The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast, but I think her publicist is ghosting me! 🙂 I am hoping that Faust might be willing to consider smaller […]
Vivek Ramawsamy: “Ignorant”
Today at The New York Times, David French lets loose on the upstart GOP presidential candidate. Here is a taste: As The Times has documented in detail, Ramaswamy is prone to denying his own words. But his problem is greater than […]
Stanford and Cal in the ACC? It “all feels wrong.”
USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon in the Big Ten? Stanford and California in the Atlantic Coast Conference? Arizona and Arizona State in the Big 12? Oklahoma and Texas in the SEC? It’s the end of the world as we know […]
Springsteen rocks Met Life Stadium
He’s back in Jersey! Blogness on the Edge of Town has the set list and the rest of the videos.
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:
The Author’s Corner with Thomas Blake Earle
Thomas Blake Earle is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University at Galveston. This interview is based on his new book, The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press, 2023). JF: […]
A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup
Many geese form a gaggle, many rabbits form a fluffle, and a group of unicorns forms a blessing. As we gear up for the long weekend, here are this week’s unusual unicorn-worthy reads, coming to you on a Friday instead […]
LONG FORM: ChatGPT and the Morality of Assistance
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Nicholas Kristof on “Rich Men North of Richmond”: “Liberals are properly attentive to racial injustice but have a blind spot about class.”
It is the #1 song in America right now. Have you heard it yet? On his You Tube channel Oliver Anthony, the writer and singer of the song, says: Watch: Here is Nicholas Kristof, a liberal columnist at The New […]
Nikki Haley is “no moderate on abortion.” Nikki Haley is “no pro-life champion.”
When I heard former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley talk about abortion at the first GOP presidential debate earlier this month I wrote: Nikki Haley, the only woman on the stage, was the most reasonable and […]
Frank Thompson died a hero. His brother, historian E.P. Thompson, “spent his life wondering why.”
This is a fascinating story about the life of one of the 20th century’s great economic and social historians and the memory of his brother. Here is Madoc Cairns at The New Statesman: When they told Frank Thompson they would […]
Evangelical roundup for August 31, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Roman Catholics becoming evangelicals in central America. A grocery store, a bar, and evangelical church in rural Brazil. Italian evangelicals pray for Christians in Pakistan. David French is teaching at David Lipscomb University: More […]