Brief reflections on this weekend’s Front Porch Republic conference.
Archives for October 2024
The Author’s Corner with Andrew Lipman
Andrew Lipman is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. This interview is based on his new book, Squanto: A Native Odyssey (Yale University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Squanto? AL: Squanto began as an offshoot of […]
This is what it looks like when an evangelical politician puts party over principle
Over at USA Today, George Fabe Russell describes House Speaker Mike Johnson’s interview yesterday with George Stephanopoulos: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sunday refused to say former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden. During a heated interview with ABC Newsâ […]
The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth L. Block
Elizabeth L. Block is an art historian and a Senior Editor in the Publications and Editorial Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This interview is based on her new book, Beyond Vanity: The History and Power […]
Heather Richardson: “William McKinley is having a moment”
From “Letters from an American“: William McKinley is having a moment (which I confess is a sentence I never expected to write). Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is elevating McKinley, representative from Ohio from 1877 to 1891 and president from […]
Shakespeare is âmid:â and other arguments in favor of education
Skepticism about books or culture is hardly new or different or exciting. Anti-intellectualism is a grand American tradition.
One Year of the Gaza War
The basics have not changed
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: JD Vance and the Trump prophets Michael Dirda reviews Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Intellectual humility Brent Staples reviews David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life […]
Thirty days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Have you heard about “Project 19“? This is charismatic “prophet” Lance Wallnau’s name for the Seven Mountain Dominionist attempt to take 19 counties in the swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election. They are Cobb County (GA), Fulton […]
Wendell Berry writes “Against Killing Children” in The Christian Century
In the October issue of The Christian Century, Wendell Berry writes powerfully about school shootings and the destruction of children and childhood.
Pete Roseâs Search for Salvation
When hatred turns to pity
Blessing of Unicorns: Helene, hope, Lewis and Tolkien get graphic, faith and higher education, and conferences
Another Blessing of Unicorns upon your dayâreads that made me stop, reflect, weep, or rejoice this week.
The Author’s Corner with Rebecca L. Davis
Rebecca L. Davis is Miller Family Early Career Professor of History and Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. This interview is based on her new book, Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and […]
Song of the day
Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz from a Jersey diner
The video was filmed at Roberto’s Freehold Grill in Freehold, NJ
CURRENT’s 2024 Best of the Net nominations
Please join us in congratulating our nominees for this yearâs Best of the Net, an annual awards- based anthology for âcommunities of online literary magazines, journals, and individuals that do the work of creating our digital literary landscape.â For the […]
REVIEW: âTo Catch Those Voices from a Distant Ageâ
In Peter Brownâs journey, wonder and disquiet led the way to late antiquityÂ
New BBC documentary: “We Will Dance Again” about Hamas attack on Supernova festival last year
As we learn more about the attacks, the atrocities appear only worse.
The Author’s Corner with Lori D. Ginzberg
Lori D. Ginzberg is Professor Emerita of History and Womenâs, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. This interview is based on her new book, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History (University of […]
REVIEW: Reading as Divine Encounter
David Michelson recovers an ancient spiritual practice