Steve Eng, the “advocacy director” of the National Association of Evangelicals, reflects on the presidential election: An NAE post-election statement encourages us to “pray for God’s guidance and blessing on those who have won, that they will be good stewards of the […]
Archives for November 2024
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Erik Loomis reviews Sunil Amrith, The Burning Earth: A History George Will hopes Trump’s cabinet appointees might revive the separation of powers, as James Madison understood them. How Americans watched […]
Albert Mohler is free to advance his Christian nationalism, but he should be more careful when using American history to do it.
Albert Mohler believes that the United States was built, and should continue to be built, on a Christian foundation. Read his entire argument here. The piece stems from his 2024 speech to the National Conservatism Conference. Let’s see how Mohler […]
Mike Johnson is feeling the rush of power
Power is a heck of a drug. Just ask Mike Johnson. Watch: The conservative evangelical Speaker of the House appeared today on CNN’s State of the Union. During the interview, Jake Tapper played this clip of Mark Wayne Mullin talking […]
Election Day was 12 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
MAGA charismatic prophets got in wrong in 2020. Biden, not Trump, won the presidency. Now they are claiming that they were just off by four years. Katherine Fung is covering it at Newsweek. One such prophet, Johnny Enlow, believes his […]
What is missing from this marker of personal virtue and moral purity?
Thomas Frank answers the question in the title of this post: Back in 2022, Frank said that the Democrats were incapable of defeating the Trumpism. He was right. Frank asks, “what happens to a country when the people of its […]
It’s hard to argue with Bill Maher’s take on the 2024 presidential election
Some things to think about:
Election Day was 11 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
World magazine is reporting that some evangelicals are concerned about Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general. But what fascinates me about Josh Schumacher’s piece at the conservative magazine is that none of the evangelicals he quotes in the […]
FORUM: Election 2024, Part III
A time to tear down, a time to build
Mike Pence: If RFK Jr. is confirmed he “would be the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history.”Â
We’ve been saying it for the last twenty-four hours. Now Mike Pence has joined us. Here is the former vice-president: “The Trump-Pence administration was unapologetically pro-life for our four years in office. There are hundreds of decisions made at HHS […]
Trump and RFK Jr. just lost the New York Post
One of the nations oldest and most conservative newspapers, the New York Post, opposes Donald Trump’s pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services. Here is a taste of its editorial: The overriding […]
Brooks: “I’m also seeing many people who are…so imprisoned by their mental models, they can interpret these results only in identity politics terms”
Today at The New York Times David Brooks offers a stinging critique of identity politics in the wake of the 2024 election. Here are a couple of snippets: Why were so many of our expectations wrong? Well, we all walk […]
What is a recess appointment?
Here is Stephen Groves at the Associated Press: As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip […]
Peggy Noonan: “As for Matt Gaetz being nominated as attorney general—well, this is just straight-out trolling, right?”
Here is the former Reagan speechwriter and current Wall Street Journal columnist: The first wave of nominees to the Trump administration announced this week included normal Republicans—Susie Wiles as chief of staff, Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations, Lee Zeldin at the […]
Election Day was 10 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
It looks like there is going to be some division in evangelical MAGA-land over some of Trump’s cabinet appointments. More than 80% of evangelicals voted for Trump and the president is “rewarding” them with an attorney general nominee who was […]
Will Democrats Shift on Abortion Now?
A pro-life conservative speaks up
Blessing of Unicorns: Monkeys on the loose, a lesser-known Inkling, Davy Crockett, and more
What makes a Unicorn-worthy story? Monkeys on the loose, for one.
Are evangelicals “the cheapest date in politics?”
Some good analysis here from Jake Meador at Mere Orthodoxy. A taste: This is the broader point: There were two theories about evangelical voters in this election. One theory said that if we abstained or voted third party we were […]
“Gabbard is stunningly unqualified for almost any Cabinet post…but especially for ODNI. She has no qualifications as an intelligence professional—literally none.”Â
Tom Nichols is a former professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College and is now a writer a The Atlantic. Here is his take on Donald Trump’s appointment of former Democratic representative Tulsi Gabbard as director of national […]
David Blight: “We need to openly recommit to learning and teaching about the whole of our knowledge…as much or more than we stress our racial, ethnic and gendered parts.”
Yale historian David Blight has some wise words for elite institutions of higher education: “We” need to openly recommit to learning and teaching about the whole of our knowledge — our histories, our literature, our sciences, our social structures, as […]