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Archives for September 2024

“Culture is being hollowed out by technology, data, globalisation, bureaucracy, and consumerist individualism”

John Fea   |  September 26, 2024

In his review of Olivier Roy’s The Crisis of Culture, Ian Leslie writes: Roy argues that culture in the sense we have understood it is being inexorably eroded. It’s not, as some of his countrymen believe, that one culture is […]

Prestigious New England boarding school offers free ride to families making under $150,000 a year

John Fea   |  September 26, 2024

This is very cool. The prestigious Deerfield Academy, located in the historic village of Deerfield, Massachusetts (the home of the 1704 Indian raid made famous by John Demos’s book The Unredeemed Captive ), is offering free tuition and boarding to […]

The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth A. Athens

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 26, 2024

Elizabeth A. Athens is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut. This interview is based on her new book, William Bartram’s Visual Wonders: The Drawings of an American Naturalist (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024). JF: What led […]

Abortion decision-making: slow down vs. speed up

Marvin Olasky   |  September 26, 2024

Why does the number of abortions in America appear to be rising?

We Are Insufficiently Immunized Against Nazis

Elizabeth Stice   |  September 26, 2024

The Third Reich’s script would please far too many today

The Author’s Corner with Keidrick Roy

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 25, 2024

Keidrick Roy is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. This interview is based on his new book, American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]

The January 6 that Never Ended 

Adam Jortner   |  September 25, 2024

The leader is not the nation—at least in this nation

American Christian voters and third parties: a historical overview

Daniel K. Williams   |  September 25, 2024

While third-party voting has never been the norm among American Christians, it has a long history.

40 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  September 25, 2024

Here is today’s evangelicals and politics roundup: Christianity Today asks whether there is a Christian candidate in this presidential election. A recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey found that about 2 in 10 white evangelicals “say the word […]

Photo of the day

John Fea   |  September 24, 2024

Among the Jeffersonians

John Fea   |  September 24, 2024

The chapter on Thomas Jefferson in my book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction is titled “Thomas Jefferson: Follower of Jesus.” In that chapter I discuss Jefferson’s attempt to model his life after the teachings of […]

The Author’s Corner with Connie Goddard

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 24, 2024

Connie Goddard is a journalist and independent scholar. This interview is based on her new book, Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity (University of Illinois Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Learning for Work? CG: […]

J. D. Vance and Legal Parentage

Miles Whitney   |  September 24, 2024

Is genetics-above-all the best guideline for answering the question ‘Who is the parent?’

Interview: Dixie Dillon Lane’s book, Skipping School, is under contract

Dixie Dillon Lane and Nadya Williams   |  September 24, 2024

A homeschooling mother, who also happens to be a historian of homeschooling, updates us on her book project and more.

REVIEW: Is Potty-Training What You Will Do with Your One Wild and Precious Life?

Agnes Howard   |  September 23, 2024

On the merits and limits of pro-natal progressivism

Building up the evangelical mind: Asbury University Honors Program and Lewis House in Lexington, KY  

Nadya Williams   |  September 23, 2024

Two relatively new institutions are doing great work for the future of the evangelical mind.

The Author’s Corner with Kyle B. Carpenter

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 23, 2024

Kyle B. Carpenter is Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain. This interview is based on his new book, Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749-1881 (University of North Texas […]

Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  September 22, 2024

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Robert Caro is writing 900 words a day on the last installment of his LBJ biography. Caro’s writing shed here. Caro and The Power Broker “The Fantasy World of Baseball” […]

Blessing of Unicorns: books, books, books (and a little more)

Nadya Williams   |  September 21, 2024

In this week’s roundup of Unicorns, meet some new books, several author interviews, and some thoughts on the complexities of history.

See you this weekend in Anderson, South Carolina!

John Fea   |  September 20, 2024

I will be in Anderson, SC this weekend for some lectures. My host is the Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology. Learn more here.

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