My message to Nikki Haley’s staff: Please hire a historian. First there was this: Just to be clear, the Civil War was about slavery. We addressed this here. Then there was this: And then there was last night’s CNN town […]
Archives for January 2024
South Carolina senator Tim Scott will endorse Trump
In 2012, South Carolina governor Nikki Haley needed to appoint a U.S. senator after Jim DeMint retired from the senate to become president of the Heritage Foundation. Haley chose a second term U.S. congressman named Tim Scott to finish the […]
What Christian universities prioritize
One might a expect a Christian university to prioritize (not merely have, but prioritize) things like: I am sure you could add more to this list. I should also add that a lot of Christian colleges are doing this well […]
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:
Where Have You Gone, Chris Christie?
I will miss his voice in this presidential campaign
Alienated America for Trump? Timothy Carney on 2016 and 2024
Tim Carney’s Alienated America explained the support for Trump in particular counties in 2016. Does this analysis still hold for 2024?
Tony Evans, Franklin Graham, and other evangelical ministry leaders make A LOT of money.
There is a LOT of money to be made in preaching the prosperity gospel, advancing Christian Right agendas, and prophesying the election of Donald Trump. In case you missed it, Ministry Watch released its list of “highly paid ministry executives” […]
Blame Christians for Trump? Not so fast: Seven of ten in a theologically Reformed area did not vote for him
Iowa caucus results suggest a different story than today’s standard one about Christians leading the way in support of Trump.
Mitt Romney: Some Trump voters are “are out of touch with reality”
Earlier this week I received a query from a journalist who covers the United States for a conservative Protestant daily newspaper in the Netherlands affiliated with the Calvinist Reformed Political Party. (Follow the links to the paper and its party. […]
Evangelical roundup for January 18, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Micah Watson reviews Russell Moore’s Losing Our Religion. The soundtrack of white evangelicalism. The war in Gaza is making some Latino evangelicals question their support for Israel. Trump is not our savior: Evangelicals in […]
Where have all the grownups gone? Reflections on Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead is a reminder that kids can’t just raise themselves.
That Time Our Car Was Stolen
On unexpected departures and returns
On the “deification of Donald Trump”
Check out Thomas Edsall’s column today at The New York Times. I was happy to contribute to it. A taste: In recent weeks, for example, the former president posted a video called “God Made Trump” on Truth Social that was […]
The Author’s Corner with Scott Kamen
Scott Kamen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, Valencia. This interview is based on his new book, From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism (University of […]
REVIEW: Misreading, Misunderstanding, Misinterpreting
Readers and writers beware: Good reading requires much help
High productivity and hard comparisons
Our culture tends to venerate productivity and accomplishment. But we can get so caught up in celebrating productivity that we can forget about the products and byproducts.
Does Ron DeSantis really have a chance?
No. As I type I am watching DeSantis on a CNN Town Hall in New Hampshire. On Monday he said that he had a “ticket our of Iowa.” Maybe he meant a plane ticket back to Tallahassee, because there is […]
“God Made a Dictator”
Some of you are familiar with the “God Made Donald Trump” video circulating in the MAGA world. If you haven’t seen it, watch it here. The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans, has responded with “God Made a Dictator”: […]
91 felony indictments later and Trump’s evangelical support is growing
As I noted this morning, evangelicals carried Trump to his Iowa win last night. We now know that Trump did much better with Iowa evangelicals this time around. Here is The New York Times: Evangelical Christian voters moved to Trump […]
Douthat: “It’s absurd that there was no unified opposition” to Trump in Iowa
Earlier today I watched Dana Bash of CNN interview GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley at a New Hampshire diner. I’ll let David Goldiner of the New York Daily News describe what I saw: Nikki Haley feigned ignorance about former President […]