In fifteen years of blogging I think this is my first Barry Manilow post. I’ll join Tom Nichols of The Atlantic in admitting that I sometimes listen to Manilow’s music. (Though I have never seen him in concert.) Here is...
Back in June we brought some attention to Bates University environmental studies scholar Tyler Austin Harper‘s New York Times piece on race and college admissions. Now, in a piece at The Washington Post, he has weighed-in on the Ibram X....
Until an official obituary appears, learn about this trailbazing United States Senator here. She was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988 and was elected to five U.S. Senate terms. In 1984 she was on Walter Mondale’s vice-presidential short...
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Donald Trump skipped Wednesday night’s GOP debate. Instead he went to Clinton Township, Michigan and spoke at a non-union auto parts factory. The day before Trump’s visit to Michigan, sitting president Joe Biden joined United Autoworkers leader Shawn Fain at...
Even at their worst, the churches kept alive a vision of man and fraternity, a knowledge of injustice suffered and retribution due. And for long periods, given the hopeless political environment in which the Negro found himself, “other-worldliness” was the...
The Boss has canceled all of his remaining 2023 shows. (He originally just canceled September shows). He continues to battle peptic ulcer disease. Here is Melina Newman at Billboard: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band have pulled their remaining 2023...
What is happening in Evangelical land? The National Association of Evangelicals has launched a “racial justice Assessment tool.” Syrian evangelicals on the ground in Turkey. The 50th anniversary of the Lausanne Covenant. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary hosts a conference...
At times I thought last night’s debate was taking place in an alternate GOP universe
The miners retain many of their admirable qualities today, but it is evident that their world, the world of early industrialism, is dying–and the union, seeking to survive by allying itself to management and mechanization, itself becomes an enemy. It...
He carries a Bible and regularly invokes his faith as he leads the United Auto Workers in a historic strike against the country’s three largest automakers. For Fain, the strike is a “righteous cause.” This reminds of Eugene Debs’s claim...
Tonight is the second presidential primary debate. Donald Trump will not be there. He really doesn’t have to be there. He has a massive lead in the polls. Why would any political adviser suggest that the former president attend this...
Historian Peter Mancall will be looking for references to the Puritans in tonight’s GOP presidential primary debate. He found several in the first debate. Here is a taste of his piece at Zocalo Public Square: The second Republican debate will...
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For the first time in United States history a sitting president joined a picket line. Here is Joe Biden at a General Motors warehouse in Van Buren Township, Michigan: More here. Interesting take from a Cambridge University historian: Socialist Jacobin...
Over at Black Perspectives, historian Nico Slate reflects on the history of this famous phrase with a short analysis that spans from Theodore Parker to Martin Luther King Jr. to Barack Obama and beyond. Here is a taste of his...
The second GOP presidential primary debate on Wednesday night will include Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tim Scott. Donald Trump will not attend. Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson did not make the...
The goal is to keep Donald Trump as far away from the White House as possible. Here is Michael Scherer at The Washington Post: The liberal activist Ralph Nader still remembers nearly the exact words Joe Biden used to banish...
Here is Liza Featherstone at Jacobin: This elitist vision of feminism has been around for more than one hundred years. In the early twentieth century Alexandra Kollontai, a Russian socialist organizer and writer who would later become the only woman in...
Last week we called your attention to Yascha Mounk’s new book The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time. Today we want to call your attention to a Mounk piece at The Atlantic based on the...
