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Archives for February 2024

Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  February 25, 2024

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Liberal socialism Peter Wehner on “The Chosen“ When people thought California was an island. Teaching the secrecy of the Constitutional Convention. The John Birch Society is now mainstream Former Harvard […]

Theocracy reigns at CPAC. Christian nationalist says “we didn’t get all the way there on January 6th”

John Fea   |  February 23, 2024

In my recent review of Rob Reiner’s film “God and Country” at Christianity Today, I suggested that many on the political left tend to conflate “Christian nationalism” with basically any form of conservative evangelical political engagement. But that doesn’t mean […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  February 23, 2024

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:

What Does the Second Anniversary of the Invasion of Ukraine Mean?

Amanda McCrina   |  February 23, 2024

For many reasons, it’s a question we would rather not consider

A Blessing of Unicorns (02/23/2024)

Nadya Williams   |  February 23, 2024

This week’s unicorns include maggots on a plane, WaPo on squirrels, oldest lipstick, Flannery O’Connor, marriage penalties, toxic productivity, the future of the humanities, and the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

America Abroad: Slinking Back to Form

John H. Haas   |  February 22, 2024

At the second anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, an old stance is passé no more

Evangelical roundup for February 22, 2024

John Fea   |  February 22, 2024

What is happening in evangelical land? The New York Times obituary for WORLD magazine founder Joel Belz. Randall Balmer on his father’s evangelicalism. More on the recent conference on Carl F.H. Henry’s The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. Conflict at […]

The good failures of unplugging: seven months later

Dixie Dillon Lane   |  February 22, 2024

Tech resistance and unplugging isn’t about superhumans doing perfectly that at which ordinary people fail; it’s about ordinary people dusting themselves off repeatedly and trying again, because the goal of a more humane life is worth pursuing.

Some additional thoughts about Hillsdale

Jay Green   |  February 21, 2024

Further thoughts in response to feedback from Monday’s essay: additions, concessions, clarifications.

Johnson Throws the Knuckleball

Paul Luikart   |  February 21, 2024

Spring training is here. Decisions must be made. Listen in.

As Current grows in readership and quality, we’d love your support!

John Fea   |  February 21, 2024

As Executive Editor of Current, I am continually blown away by the authors who entrust their work to our care. Check out, for example: The Arena blog has been on fire of late. Check out posts on Alexei Navalny, the […]

Teachers deserve a lot more money

John Fea   |  February 20, 2024

How about a staring salary of $100,000 a year? Here is Daniel Pink at The Washington Post: Adam DiPerna always had to hold it in. As a Spanish teacher at Gerald G. Huesken Middle School in Lancaster, Pa., he’d arrive in his […]

REVIEW: Remaking the World

Miles Smith IV   |  February 20, 2024

What’s 1776 got to do with it?

Navalny’s death and Russia’s school of fear

Nadya Williams   |  February 20, 2024

Navalny’s assassination is just another class in Russia’s state-sponsored school of fear.

Scholars: Trump is the worst president in American history.

John Fea   |  February 19, 2024

Here is the top 20 from the “2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey.” Obama and Ulysses S. Grant are on the upswing. Andrew Jackson and Calvin Coolidge out of the top 20. The bottom three: Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, and […]

Trump responds to the death of Alexei Navalny

John Fea   |  February 19, 2024

Trump does not condemn Putin for Navalny’s death. He shows no remorse for Navalny or his family. He is unable to exercise even the smallest amount of empathy. And he uses Navalny’s death to air his own grievances. But hey, […]

Presidents Day headlines have a story to tell

Marvin Olasky   |  February 19, 2024

Presidents Day headlines have a story to tell–by omissions as much as inclusions.

The Author’s Corner with Kirsten Wood

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 19, 2024

Kirsten Wood is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University. This interview is based on her new book, Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write […]

Evangelical roundup for February 19, 2024

John Fea   |  February 19, 2024

What is happening in Evangelical land? Sojourners reviews Rob Reiner’s film “God and Country” The battle for souls in the deepest Amazon. The folks at the Institute on Religion & Democracy commemorate the 75th anniversary of Carl F.H. Henry’s The […]

Selling “Christian” Hillsdale

Jay Green   |  February 19, 2024

The rise of civilizational Christian colleges

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