Check out our full coverage of the Asbury Revival. The former HUD director and presidential candidate’s speech this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference praised the founding fathers, repeated the myth that Ben Franklin led the Constitutional Conventional in […]
Archives for 2023
Apparently $100,000 is the price to compete in the CPAC straw poll
Vivek Ramaswamy is running for the GOP nomination for president in 2024, but he has no name recognition and as a result was not expected to do well on the straw poll conducted last weekend at a gathering of the […]
McKay Coppins at CPAC: “I’ve never seen it more dead”
What happens if you hold a Conservative Political Action Conference and no one shows up? Here is McKay Coppins at The Atlantic: The right-wing-merch retailer’s setup was among the most impressive at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference—a gargantuan display […]
Episode 52: “Introducing the Terri Schiavo Case”
In the first half of 2005, the Christian Right poured all its energy into this controversial Florida right-to-life case. Episode 52: “Introducing the Terri Schiavo Case’ dropped today. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this […]
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CPAC 2023 in six minutes
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Indiana Jones and Excavating Antiquity
It’s not about fortune and gloryÂ
Ideas in progress: Eric Miller on Wendell Berry and localism
What is the focus of your current book project? What are the big questions that you are investigating and the main stories that you hope to tell in this book? My book’s working title is “A Strange and Abiding Hope: […]
David Waldstreicher brings his “blunt intellectual style” to a biography of Phillis Wheatley
Here is Jennifer Schuessler at The New York Times: Around 1772, Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved teenager in Boston, sat down to write a poem called “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” which began with praise for the “mercy” that […]
The Judeo-Christian roots of Superman
Roy Schwartz is the author of Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero. Here is a taste of his piece at Literary Hub, “How Superman Became a Christ-Like Figure in American Culture“: With the onset of […]
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Evangelical roundup for March 6, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land? When evangelicals turned against Jimmy Carter. And here. Florida’s Latino evangelicals are mobilizing against Ron DeSantis. Evangelical movies about Queen Esther. Prayers for the Belz family. The board of the National Association of Evangelicals: […]
Commonplace Book #242
Joshua Katz, a classicist, made tenure at one of the most prestigious universities in America when he was just thirty-six years old. That is not why I know his name, though it is among the reasons that the implosion of […]
THE OLASKY FILES: Justin Giboney, Christian and Democrat
Love and truth, compassion and conviction, justice and righteousness: These belong together
Everything in season: why you will love and likely sometimes hate your alma mater
College is an interesting time. You get constant social approval for Chili’s and Taco Bell. Staying up all night to read Beowulf isn’t all that weird. You worry about “printer money” and parking and what you’re doing for spring break. […]
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The Legacy of The Jesus Revolution
What has Chuck Smith’s and Lonnie Frisbee’s hippie revival wrought?
What I am reading: Dixie Dillon Lane
My first year of parenting was terrifically hard. It was not just because I had had a difficult pregnancy (though I had) and a colicky, sleepless dear little baby (though I did), but because I thought that the hard parts […]
Evangelical roundup for March 2, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land? Evangelicals around the world are praying for Ukraine. Evangelicals and rumspringa. Russian evangelicals and the war in Ukraine. Why Tim Keller avoids the culture wars. How should evangelicals engage Haiti? The Asbury Revival and […]