Penguin Little Black Classics No.6 features two essays by John Ruskin.
Archives for September 2024
Happy Labor Day!
I hope you don’t have to work on the highway today
Simply Irreducible
The complexities of any life defy our penchant for abstraction
The Author’s Corner with Steven Watts
Steven Watts is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri. This interview is based on his new book, Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People (Cambridge University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Citizen Cowboy? […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Pay teachers $100,000 a year. Did Trump defile an American “sacred space” last week? More here. City Journal hosts a forum on higher education that includes pieces by Wilfred McClay […]
Trump spins again on abortion. The Christian Right feels much better now.
Trump is all over the place on abortion. Kamala Harris sat down for an interview with CNN. It’s Labor Day weekend, the unofficial start of the final push for November. Let’s check-in on what American evangelicals are saying. I think […]
Jack Hibbs says conservative pundits with big platforms, fame, and microphones should stop speaking on topics in which they have no expertise. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.
Here is Jack Hibbs on people “qualified” to speak on this or that topic in the news: Hibbs says: Jack Hibbs is the Christian Right pastor with a large following. He has a microphone. He is famous. And he has […]
A bunch of white, patriarchal nationalist Christians who “seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics” held a baptism ceremony at Ohio State
In a recent essay at the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, one of the most important journals in the study of religion, historian Matthew Avery Sutton writes: “…post-World War II evangelicalism is best defined as a white, patriarchal, nationalist religious movement made up of Christians who […]