David French’s support of Harris raises questions he’s never really answered
Archives for August 2024
Byung-Chul Han: An interview with Steven Knepper, Ethan Stoneman, and Robert Wyllie
A new book on “the internet’s new favorite philosopher”–an interview with the authors.
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Robert McCoy reviews Brenda Wineapple’s Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation. How the internet is remaking us. Prayers at Trump rallies Sara Georgini reviews […]
Kevin Williamson on “Shepherds for Sale”: “Reviewing a book like this is like trying to argue with an avalanche—an avalanche of stupidity and error.”
Ouch! There are reviews, and then there are REVIEWS. Kevin Williamson’s review of Megan Basham’s Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda is a REVIEW. I haven’t really been following all the publicity surrounding […]
Former Cornerstone University professors start “Contrary U”
After Cornerstone University fired humanities professor Matt Bonzo and Michael Stevens (and others), the chair of the Board of Trustees implied that they were “contrarians.” If you are not familiar with what happened at Cornerstone, check out our coverage here. […]
“White, patriarchal, nationalist Christians who seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics” for Kamala Harris?
Earlier this week, a group called “Evangelicals for Harris” met on a ZOOM call to explain why evangelicals should vote for Kamala Harris. Who are these “Evangelicals for Harris?” In a recent essay at the Journal of the American Academy […]
The church does not affiliate with political parties. It holds government accountable, regardless of who is in office.
I finally managed to get a copy of N.T. Wright and Michael Bird’s book Jesus and the Powers. I’m looking forward to digging into it. Christianity Today recently published a short interview with Wright. Here is a taste: In your […]
I think Trump adviser Stephen Miller forgot about the slave trade
Movie clip of the day
Final scenes of Godfather 2:
Gilder-Lehrman Institute/Gettysburg College M.A. program in American history expands to include community college teachers
I get this question a lot from high school history teachers: “Do you recommend the Gettysburg College-Gilder-Lehrman Institute MA in American History? Short answer: Yes. This is the only online graduate program I recommend. Here’s the latest: At $750 per […]
The Last Christian
Secularization and the future
Video: “The Role of the Bible in the Founding of the United States and Religious Mandates in Public Schools”
Here is the video of the AHA “History Behind the Headlines” series. Glad to join Jim Grossman, Jon Butler, Holly Brewer, and Heath Carter for this discussion:
“Evangelicals for Harris” releases an ad. Is this a pro-Harris or anti-Trump movement?
The group “Evangelicals for Harris” just released its first political ad. The ad makes me wonder: Is “Evangelicals for Harris” a pro-Harris political movement or an anti-Trump movement.? Watch the ad: Franklin Graham is not happy with the use of […]
“It’s like he’s choosing to lose”
Gabriel Sherman, writing at Vanity Fair, informs us that Republican donors and Trump campaign officials are “struggling to understand why Trump seems to be sabotaging his own candidacy”: Trump has been in a self-destructive spiral since the moment Democrats replaced Joe […]
Franklin & Marshall Poll: Harris leads Trump; Casey leads McCormick
Here is a taste: Vice President Harris leads Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, 46% to 43%. The main reasons that Harris voters are supporting her candidacy include anti-Trumpism (18%), women’s rights (17%), character (15%), partisanship (13%), and democracy (13%). The top […]
How Harris is transcending Trump
E.J. Dionne is right: The sudden and radical shift in the trajectory of the 2024 campaign owes to more than the replacement of President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. To a degree that’s still not fully appreciated, Harris […]
Please Walk on the Grass
Toronto helps us remember the promise of the word ‘social’Â
REVIEW: How Information Overload Destroyed American Democracy (Maybe)
Can a people survive when truth is beside the point?
Trumpism is straight out of the 1980s
Maybe when Trump says “Make America Great Again” he has the 1980s in mind. Here is a taste of Michael Grasso’s Jacobin piece, “Donald Trump and the ’80s Aesthetic“: When Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea stood onstage at the Republican National […]
Air check of the day
Some context. Another part of my childhood is gone. No change for Mets radio. Here is Mets radio legend Howie Rose: