Derek G. Handley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. This interview is based on his new book, Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement (Penn State University Press, 2024). […]
Archives for November 2024
Election Day was six days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Shane Idleman, the pastor of Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, has some advice for Donald Trump about the border: Everyone agrees that illegal immigration is one of the biggest challenges facing us today. In an attempt to secure more […]
REVIEW: Love and Marriage in the Age of Austen
Falling in love with Austen all over again
How the 2024 election will change American politics
Trump has just done what Reagan did in 1980 – but the magnitude of the realignment will depend on what Trump does next.
“Reelecting Donald Trump after January 6 is the greatest dereliction of civic duty by the electorate in the history of the United States.” Now how do we move forward?
Here is Nick Catoggio at The Dispatch: Reelecting Donald Trump after January 6 is the greatest dereliction of civic duty by the electorate in the history of the United States. We’ll pay for it in years to come, over and […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Fareed Zakaria offers three reasons why Trump won. Blaming democracy Nicholas Kristof: Maybe now Democrats will start paying attention to the working class. Teaching American Studies in Amsterdam Donald Trump […]
The Democratic Party is not “just losing white workers but all workers, regardless of race”
For the last nine years we have been told that people support Trump because they are racist and patriarchal. Social class, we are told, is really just a guise for the racism and misogyny of the uneducated white working classes. […]
The John Piper controversy is another window into the current state of American evangelicalism
Have you been following the MAGA evangelical attack on John Piper? On the day after the election, the Reformed theologian tweeted: “Having delivered us from one evil, God now tests us with another.” I don’t see the same kind of […]
Matt Karp: Trump voters were Dominican hairstylists, Chinese grandmas, and Navajo teenagers
Princeton historian Matt Karp: The point about the Navajo is interesting. The American Indian vote was small, but it went 65% to 34% in Trump’s favor.
Election Day was 5 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
It seems like there are two kinds of Trump evangelical voters. Those who voted for Trump as the “lesser evil” and those who saw Trump as the candidate that God favored. Blogger Samuel Sey seems to fall in the former […]
What is going on at MSNBC?
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude shows why it is going to be a long time before the Democratic Party wins over working class people. His argument here–that Kamala Harris lost because she is Black–will play well in the Ivy League faculty […]
The “testosterone podcast election”
“Young men feel unseen by the Democratic Party,” says NYU professor Scott Galloway. It seems like a lot of Americans got sick of all the toxic masculinity language and they pushed back on Election Day. What fascinates me is that […]
Smerconish: The 2024 presidential election was Wildwood vs. Stone Harbor
Excellent analysis here from Michael Smerconish. As longtime readers of this blog know, I am passionate about the Jersey shore and have often offered class-based analysis of “the shore (as we Jerseyans call it) here at the blog. Here is […]
Michael Kazin: Democrats must “revive aggressive populism on the left”
Here is the Georgetown historian at Dissent: Perhaps the only positive consequence of the victory of an utterly despicable nominee and his down-ballot faithful is that progressives inside and outside the Democratic Party are groping their way toward a common […]
The “identity politics” crowd loses Maureen Dowd
Here is a taste of Dowd’s New York Times column today: Some Democrats are finally waking up and realizing that woke is broke. Donald Trump won a majority of white women and remarkable numbers of Black and Latino voters and […]
Thomas Frank: “The Elites Had It Coming”
Thomas Frank, the author of What’s the Matter With Kansas and The Conquest of Cool, offers his take on the election: Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump’s appeal — and they failed. The Democrats are a party of […]
It’s four days after Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
The National Association of Evangelicals has issued a press release: “Elections inevitably produce winners and losers,” said NAE President Walter Kim. “We pray for God’s guidance and blessing on those who have won, that they will be good stewards of the […]
FORUM: Election 2024
A time to weep, a time to laugh
Josh Hawley endorses John Cornyn for Senate majority leader. The MAGA crowd goes nuts.
It is apparently a three way race for Senate majority leader. The candidates are South Dakota’s John Thune, Texas’s John Cornyn, and Florida’s Rick Scott. Scott is the favorite of the MAGA movement. Thune is the closest to former leader […]
A post-election statement from CURRENT
The political landscape in America changed on November 6, 2024. We at Current are grappling with what that means. If you are a regular reader, you can continue to expect us to defend the free institutions of democracy when they […]