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Archives for August 2024
The Author’s Corner with Tyson Reeder
Tyson Reeder is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. This interview is based on his new book, Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison’s America (Oxford University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
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Reading Genesis with Marilynne Robinson
What should a good reporter do all day?
Some denominations within Christianity have patron saints. In overwhelmingly secular journalism, reporters normally don’t think about patron saints, but I’d like to suggest from the Bible a patron psalm. Psalm 73 begins with a careful observer’s confession of depression: “As […]
At CURRENT, we want to lift up writers who champion the ideals and values of the American project. Join us!
More people are reading Current right now than at any other time in its nearly four year history. We are gratified and honored for how you, our readers, have helped us grow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. As I […]
How does a university exist without librarians?
I am worried about posting this article from Inside Higher Ed because I don’t want to give academic administrators any ideas. Western Illinois University is laying off all nine of its library faculty. What is happening to higher education? Here […]
The True Value of the Youth Vote
We need their hopefulnessÂ
Joyfully embracing abortion, or sorrowfully claiming necessity?
Almost a half-century ago, Magda Denes came out with In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital. It’s still the only defense of abortion that I recommend to people.
The Author’s Corner with Andrew E. Busch
Andrew E. Busch is Associate Director of the Institute of American Civics at the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee. This interview is based on his new book, Ronald Reagan and the Firing […]
Twenty years after his breakout speech, Obama is back tonight
Barack Obama is speaking at tonight’s Democratic National Convention. Twenty years ago, as a candidate for U.S. Senate, Obama delivered his breakout speech at the DNC in Boston. About three weeks before the 2004 convention, Obama was driving between Springfield […]
The Democrats may have just lost my vote!
Many Democrats are upset about the cancellation of James Taylor on the first night of the Democratic National Convention. The DNC is claiming that the legendary singer was canceled because there wasn’t enough time for him to perform due to […]
Patrick Spero returns to the American Philosophical Society as CEO
The last time I talked to Patrick Spero he had just left his position as the Director of the Library and Museum at the American Philosophical Society (APS) and had taken a similar post at Mount Vernon. Now he’s back […]
Raphael Warnock’s “American covenant” and where his vision for a Micah 6:8 nation goes off the rails
Raphael Warnock delivered a real stemwinder last night at the Democratic National Convention. Speeches like this remind me of why I felt compelled to argue in 2018 that the early civil rights movement provides the best historical model for evangelicals, […]
The Author’s Corner with Hendrik Hartog
Hendrik Hartog is Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus at Princeton University. This interview is based on his new book, Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the […]
Victor Davis Hanson: On Trump and Tragedy
Hanson’s defense of Trump doesn’t do justice to the classics he touts
Harris-Nixon 2024?
What has Kamala Harris to do with Richard Nixon? Hint: it has to do with grocery prices.
Former federal justice J. Michael Luttig endorses Kamala Harris
I remember when conservative legal scholar J. Michael Luttig was on the short list of judges considered for a Supreme Court nomination. Then Donald Trump came along and started playing fast and loose with American institutions and the United States […]
The Fannie Lou Hammer convention?
Maxine Waters just spoke on night one of the DNC convention. While many have been comparing this Chicago convention to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Waters invoked Fannie Lou Hamer and the 1964 DNC convention in Atlantic City. It has […]
One night event: “Faith and Democracy and the Legacy of the First Prayer in Congress”
Join Carpenters’ Hall at the American Philosophical Society‘s Benjamin Franklin Hall on the evening of September 5th for a rousing discussion between nine faith leaders from historic Philadelphia congregations. They will discuss and debate prayer and religion in American government […]
The Author’s Corner with Michael J. Douma
Michael J. Douma is Associate Professor in the McDonough School of Business and Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics at Georgetown University. This interview is based on his new book, The Slow Death of […]