Here is Geoff Edgers at The Washington Post: John Levin had no idea what heâd stumbled upon at first. About 10 years ago, the collector paid about $100 for a box of wax cylinders at an auction in Pennsylvania coal […]
Archives for December 2024
Using Bonhoeffer
Over at First Things, Joel Looper, the author of a book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, reviews the movie Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. A taste: Bonhoeffer was a towering figure of twentieth-century theology whose courage, leadership in the Confessing Church, and ultimate […]
Julie Durbin invites students to “A Way of Pilgrimage in the World.”
What students need to learn is more than just informationâa what. What they need is a how and with whomâa way of pilgrimage in the world.
Wehner: If “politics goes bad, if it goes really bad, it can have catastrophic human consequences.”
Peter Wehner is a former George W. Bush staffer, a public intellectual, a writer at The Atlantic and The New York Times, a conservative, and a staunch critic of Donald Trump. He recently appeared on Andrew Keen’s podcast to discuss […]
Perry Bacon Jr. wants us to stop blaming progressives for Harris’s loss. Is he right?
Here is the Washington Post columnist: Center-left and establishment Democrats are trying to marginalize the partyâs left wing in the wake of Vice President Kamala Harrisâs loss last month, in some ways mirroring what moderates â including Bill Clinton â did in the late â80s […]
Other controversial presidential pardons in American history
According to Joshua Zeitz, Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden was less controversial than these presidential pardons: George Washington pardoned two whiskey rebels. Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederate officers. George H.W. Bush pardoned six men convicted in the Iran […]
To the Christian Writer
Bring the fire
Wreckers
The temptation to be a Wrecker is strong. Augustine reminds us a better way.
Eric Metaxas apologizes to the Bonhoeffer family…sort of
Warren Throckmorton is following this story closely. Here is a taste of his latest: Today, Eric Metaxas offered a guarded apology for his slanderous remarks about the relatives of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. During an interview with Glenn Beck on November 23, Metaxas said 86 of […]
Prosak
Get ready for linguistic anarchy
Is âThe Mediaâ in the room with us now?
Stop saying “media”!
Philosopher-carpenters
My father and brother are carpenters. My other brother is a plumber. I am a college professor. I thus naturally gravitated to Alex Sosler’s Plough article on schools that blend the life of the mind with the life of the […]
Oxford University Press word of the year
Here is a taste from the Oxford University Press website: âBrain rotâ is defined as âthe supposed deterioration of a personâs mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to […]
CURRENT announces its 2024 Pushcart Prize nominees
The editorial staff of Current is pleased to announce its nominees for the 2024 Pushcart Prize. They are: Agnes Howard, “Privilege, Hungarian Style“ Paul Luikart, “Johnson Throws the Knuckleball“ Tim Larsen, “When H.G. Wells Found God“ Jacqueline Doyle, “Shoplifting“ Tim […]
The “Roman republic slipped into tyranny when powerful men had seduced or intimidated its citizens so that they became a stampeding mob, hungry for bread and circuses.”
Jim Sleeper thinks it might be time to take another look at the Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Here is a taste of Sleeper’s recent piece at Commonweal: âWhen the people give way,â warned John Adams, […]
REVIEW: Letters to a Future Saint
Exhortations to patience and hope
No, accreditation requirements wonât save the humanities
Gutting the humanities in declining institutions never stops the decline–but leaders still try.
Dinesh D’Souza apologizes for “2000 Mules”
In 2022, conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza produced and narrated “2000 Mules.” a conspiracist political film that claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Here is a description of the film: The 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud orchestrated by […]
On Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter
Jonathan Chait puts it well: It would be tempting, but unfair, to draw a simple equation between Joe Bidenâs situational ethics and that of his successor. A willingness to evade the rule of law is the foundation of Donald Trumpâs […]
Interview: John McCabe on Dietrich Bonhoeffer–The Last Eight Days
John McCabe’s new book focuses on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s final eight days.