Archives for January 2024

Will we see a DeSantis vengeance tour?

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A lot of Ron DeSantis loyalists turned on him during his presidential election bid and threw support behind Donald Trump. Now that DeSantis is out the race, and still has three more years left as governor of Florida, will he […]

January 6, 2021: The Shakespeare angle

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Today at The Washington Post, Meena Venkataramanan has a piece on a letter the January 6th “Stop the Steal” protesters sent to the Folger Shakespeare Library. This is wild. Here is a taste: While insurrectionists were plotting to storm the […]

Historian Edward Ayers on “The Era of the New Nation”

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What should we call the decades of American history between 1800 and 1860? Edward Ayers proposes “The Era of the New Nation.” He and his wife Abby have been traveling the country exploring the way we commemorate these decades. He […]

Three cheers for the University of Maryland

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Emily Davies has a great article at The Washington Post about the University of Maryland’s practice of sending members of its marching band to inform select students that they have been accepted to the university. Davies tells the story of […]

Nikki Haley takes an early lead in New Hampshire primary

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She is leading 6-0, thanks to Dixville Notch. Here is the Associated Press: The six registered voters of tiny Dixville Notch in New Hampshire all cast their ballots for Nikki Haley at midnight on Tuesday, giving her a clean sweep over former […]

Polls: Trump still leads in New Hampshire GOP primary race

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Washington Post-Monmouth University poll: Trump: 52%. Haley 34%, DeSantis 8%. CNN poll: Trump 50%. Haley 39%. DeSantis 6%. DeSantis dropped out of the race yesterday, after these polls were conducted. Politicos are saying that most of DeSantis’s votes will go […]

Evangelical roundup for January 22, 2024

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What is happening in Evangelical land? Sarah McCammon of NPR, a former evangelical herself, on evangelical support for Trump. An evangelical pastor in Kansas calls on Christians to lead the way on immigration reform. Daniel Bennett reviews Tim Alberta’s The […]

Sunday night odds and ends

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A few things online that caught my attention this week: Rom Brownstein on Nikki Haley’s chances. The “Christian Bubble” Why do all coffee shops look the same? Anne Lamont on aging Samuel Goldman reviews Wilson Carey McWilliams, The Idea of […]

GOP: The “party of malice”

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Here is Peter Wehner at The Atlantic: As soon as former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley emerged as the main threat to Donald Trump in the battle for the Republican nomination, it became inevitable that she would be targeted by […]

Steve Garvey for U.S. Senate?

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I respected Steve Garvey as a baseball player, but I rarely, if ever, cheered for him. I was no fan of those 1970s and early 1980s Dodger teams that included the likes of Davey Lopes, Ron “The Penguin” Cey, Bill […]