What happens when party loyalty and a cult of personality trumps our loyalty to the checks and balances built into the United States Constitution? We have a Constitutional crisis like the one we are currently experiencing. Here is Robert Kagan […]
Does Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” make students hate America?
As longtime readers of this blog know, I have my issues with Howard Zinn‘s A People’s History of the United States. I stand by what I have written about this book over the last decade or so. We’ve covered him […]
Charles Sellers, RIP
I read Charles Sellers‘s 1991 book The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 during my first year of graduate school. While I learned much from the book, I was never convinced by his portrayal of American farmers as “antinomian” evangelicals who […]
Biden wins Arizona…again.
According to “Cyber Ninjas,” the Florida firm hired by Trump supporters to conduct the Maricopa County audit, Joe Biden won the state by ninety-nine more votes than we originally thought he did. Here is The Washington Post; A Republican-commissioned review […]
Apparently a lot of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers are running for local school boards
Some are saying it’s a new front in the culture wars. Back in August, CNN ran a story about about a group called “Back to School-PA” that is throwing money at anti-mask candidates. In Delaware, a group called “Stand Up […]
Thank you pastor Reverend Keith Marshall!
Marshall is the pastor of Hope Lutheran Church in Enumclaw, Washington.
“How do you have an unthreatening, warm, friendly conversation with someone who thinks Oprah Winfrey and Pope Francis eat children?”
Here is a taste of Katha Pollitt’s piece at The Nation: I can just barely see how someone could think that virtually every doctor on the planet is wrong—after all, the medical consensus has been wrong before. But where’s the […]
Charlie Kirk: Democrats are letting migrants into the country because they want to diminish and decrease “white demographics in America”
The evangelical nativist Charlie Kirk, a regular visitor to megachurches across the country, “said the quiet part out loud” yesterday on his radio show. Here is a clip: I have posted the video of the entire show below. The conversation […]
What is popular this week at CURRENT?
Here are the most popular Current features of the last week: Adam Jortner, You Can’t Make Me Wear Pants, Either David Tucker, The Right to Discriminate? Christopher Shannon, Catholics and Evangelicals Together–Again! John Fea, On Constitution Day, Let’s Remember the Losers […]
As academic historians debate historiography and Dunmore’s Proclamation, a book on “Marxism” by a Fox News commentator has sold 1 million copies
I mentioned this book today in my weekly feature at Current. While American historians are having debates over historiography and Dunmore’s Proclamation, Mark Levin sits atop The New York Times best-seller’s list. Here is the Simon & Schuster press release: […]
Evangelical roundup for September 23, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? The majority of white evangelical Protestants believe Donald Trump is a “true patriot.” When the KKK funded Billy Sunday: https://twitter.com/Randall_Stps/status/1440703541480280067 The president of the National Association of Evangelicals meets with Biden. Men’s groups are […]
Make Historiography Great Again?
Historiographical intervention may animate the profession’s ambitious social climbers. But is it winning any readers in the general public?
“The median voter is a 50-something white person who didn’t go to college and lives in an unfashionable suburb”
Matthew Yglesias offers some advice to the Democrats: Back in 1992, James Carville supposedly hung a sign in Clinton campaign headquarters that said, “it’s the economy, stupid.” By the same token, Democrats today could improve their performance enormously if every staffer’s computer […]
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We hope so. As we approach our six-month anniversary, we are still working hard to deliver quality content to our readers and subscribers. I am not sure we realized how much work goes into a daily platform of this nature, […]
COVID-19 at Christian Colleges–Update for September 22, 2021
Here are some of the latest numbers. Compare with our August 31, September 8, and September 15 updates. Messiah University (as of September 21): 33 active cases. 72.8% vaccination rate. Cases have nearly doubled since last week. Liberty University (as of September 15): 175 […]
Sidney Powell goes on the show of a 7 Mountain Dominionist and says Democrats murdered people in Georgia to cover up stealing the 2020 election
Andrew Wommack is a Seven Mountain Dominionist. He believes that Christians must gain control of the seven spheres of cultural influence: Business, Government, Media, Arts and Entertainment, Education, Family, and Religion. When Christians control these spheres, Jesus Christ will return. […]
Introducing BBH Literary
Are you looking for a literary agent? A book publicist? Editorial assistance? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, check out BBH Literary, the brand new agency founded by David Bratt and Laura Bardolph Hubers. David acquired my […]
Episode 21: “The Pro-Federal Marriage Amendment Coalition Emerges”
Evangelicals rally around George W. Bush Episode 21: “The Pro-Federal Marriage Amendment Coalition Emerges” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser: Listen to Episodes 0, 1, and 2 here. If […]
Why were Springsteen and Mellencamp wandering around Bay Head?
Last Sunday Joy and I took a day trip to Island Beach State Park, a state beach located on the southern tip of Jersey Shore’s Barnegat Peninsula. We decided to take the scenic route to our destination, driving down Route […]
Roosevelt Montas’s “heartfelt defense of the Eurocentricity of a Great Books curriculum”
Historian Steve Mintz‘s recent column at Inside Higher Ed reviews Roosevelt Montas‘s forthcoming book Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Here is a taste: For far too long, he […]