Franklin Graham is still very upset about how “Evangelicals for Harris” used his father’s image in a campaign ad. The man who has supported Donald Trump in the last two elections is suggesting that the Evangelicals for Harris crowd does […]
The Nebraska prairie populist who might win a Senate seat
Dan Osborn is an independent running for a Deb Fischer‘s Nebraska U.S. Senate seat. And he really has a chance. According to 538, he trails Fischer by less than one percentage point. Here is a taste of Justin Vassallo’s profile […]
Bret Stephens offers Kamala Harris a closing argument
The New York Times columnist writes a closing argument for Harris: My fellow citizens, When the tumultuous history of this year’s presidential election is written, future generations will note that the choice boiled down to this: the certainty of division […]
20 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Many on the Christian Right continue to remain nervous about surveys suggesting that large numbers of evangelicals may not vote in November. Over at the conservative website TownHall.com, a conservative writer named Rachel Alexander is shaming these evangelicals who plan […]
The Atlantic endorses Kamala Harris
And in the process it makes a pretty strong case why Trump cannot be the next president. This is only the fourth time the magazine has weighed-in on a presidential election. The Atlantic endorsed both of Trump’s previous opponents (Clinton […]
“Edit with a pen, as if you were conducting a symphony”
I loved this piece on the late magazine editor and writer Lewis Lapham. The author is Elias Altman, a former Lapham staffer. I was a regular reader of Lapham’s Quarterly before it went on hiatus. Now that Lapham is gone, […]
21 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
This week I helped Newsweek writer Khaleda Rahman with a piece on “Evangelicals for Harris.” Here is my contribution: Others were more skeptical that the group could sway enough evangelical voters toward Harris. “Frankly, I don’t think Evangelicals for Harris […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: On mining universal laws from anecdotes Does Kamala Harris support late-term abortions? A case for civics Willie Mays and Birmingham David Brooks: Republican exile Intellectual independence requires submission to authority. […]
A night with National Book Award finalist Eliza Griswold
On Thursday night I got the chance to chat with writer Eliza Griswold about her new book Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church. A few days before this event, which was held […]
The Grimace factor
My New York Mets are still alive in the MLB playoffs. This is from June 2024: By day I am a historian. By night I am a baseball prognosticator! 🙂
THIS Is What Christian Nationalism Looks Like
Will the ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ be required reading in Oklahoma schools?
This is what it looks like when an evangelical politician puts party over principle
Over at USA Today, George Fabe Russell describes House Speaker Mike Johnson’s interview yesterday with George Stephanopoulos: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sunday refused to say former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden. During a heated interview with ABC News’ […]
Heather Richardson: “William McKinley is having a moment”
From “Letters from an American“: William McKinley is having a moment (which I confess is a sentence I never expected to write). Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is elevating McKinley, representative from Ohio from 1877 to 1891 and president from […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: JD Vance and the Trump prophets Michael Dirda reviews Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Intellectual humility Brent Staples reviews David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life […]
Thirty days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Have you heard about “Project 19“? This is charismatic “prophet” Lance Wallnau’s name for the Seven Mountain Dominionist attempt to take 19 counties in the swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election. They are Cobb County (GA), Fulton […]
Pete Rose’s Search for Salvation
When hatred turns to pity
Song of the day
Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz from a Jersey diner
The video was filmed at Roberto’s Freehold Grill in Freehold, NJ
CURRENT’s 2024 Best of the Net nominations
Please join us in congratulating our nominees for this year’s Best of the Net, an annual awards- based anthology for “communities of online literary magazines, journals, and individuals that do the work of creating our digital literary landscape.” For the […]