Here is the video of the AHA “History Behind the Headlines” series. Glad to join Jim Grossman, Jon Butler, Holly Brewer, and Heath Carter for this discussion:
“Evangelicals for Harris” releases an ad. Is this a pro-Harris or anti-Trump movement?
The group “Evangelicals for Harris” just released its first political ad. The ad makes me wonder: Is “Evangelicals for Harris” a pro-Harris political movement or an anti-Trump movement.? Watch the ad: Franklin Graham is not happy with the use of […]
“It’s like he’s choosing to lose”
Gabriel Sherman, writing at Vanity Fair, informs us that Republican donors and Trump campaign officials are “struggling to understand why Trump seems to be sabotaging his own candidacy”: Trump has been in a self-destructive spiral since the moment Democrats replaced Joe […]
Franklin & Marshall Poll: Harris leads Trump; Casey leads McCormick
Here is a taste: Vice President Harris leads Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, 46% to 43%. The main reasons that Harris voters are supporting her candidacy include anti-Trumpism (18%), women’s rights (17%), character (15%), partisanship (13%), and democracy (13%). The top […]
How Harris is transcending Trump
E.J. Dionne is right: The sudden and radical shift in the trajectory of the 2024 campaign owes to more than the replacement of President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. To a degree that’s still not fully appreciated, Harris […]
Trumpism is straight out of the 1980s
Maybe when Trump says “Make America Great Again” he has the 1980s in mind. Here is a taste of Michael Grasso’s Jacobin piece, “Donald Trump and the ’80s Aesthetic“: When Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea stood onstage at the Republican National […]
Air check of the day
Some context. Another part of my childhood is gone. No change for Mets radio. Here is Mets radio legend Howie Rose:
“Let’s give hog reeves their due!”
Over at the Panorama, historian Gabe Loiacono introduces us to hog reeves. “Hog reeves were annually elected town officers,” he writes, “whose part-time position ensured that all hogs in the town wore a yoke and a nose-ring and were generally […]
David French is voting for Harris-Walz. What are his fellow evangelicals saying about the decision?
In his most recent New York Times column, David French announced that he will be voting for Harris-Walz in November in order to “save conservatism from itself.” Here is a taste: It is fascinating to me that there are voices […]
Will I be voting for Donald Trump in November?
I got a few messages this week informing me that some folks on social media are saying that my recent piece merging “Evangelicals for Harris” with Charles Camosy’s First Things essay on abortion means that I am going to vote […]
“What deporting 15 million people would look like”
Every now and then I hear or read something about Donald Trump doing well among Hispanics. As Mexican journalist LeĂłn Krauze argues, Hispanic voters who support the former president need to know exactly what he is planning. Here is a […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Who was Prince Whipple and what did he have to do with Washington crossing the Delaware? Armand D.Angour reviews Simon Horobin’s C.S. Lewis’s Oxford. David French on why he is […]
“Evangelicals for Harris” speakers named on the day after we learn more about Tim Walz’s extreme views on abortion
In his 2010 book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter argued that both the Christian Right and the Evangelical Left were guilty of […]
Is Tim Walz an “unhinged moral degenerate?” Is he “demonic?”
Recently, conservatives–especially conservative Christians–have said some pretty bad things about Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s VP pick. As we noted in our recent roundups of evangelical responses to the Harris-Walz ticket, some evangelicals are calling Walz an “unhinged moral degenerate,” “demonic,” […]
Steve Martin will NOT play Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live
Martin told Lorne Michaels that he is “not an impressionist.” He added: “You need someone who can really nail the guy. I was picked because I have gray hair and glasses.” More here.
Jenna Ellis will testify against Rudy Giuliani in Arizona election case
In 2020, Jenna Ellis was part of a group of Donald Trump lawyers who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election. She now realizes that she hitched her cart to the wrong wagon. This, of course, is what […]
Damon Linker on the post-liberal Catholics driving J.D. Vance and the Trump campaign
Linker compares today’s anti-liberal Catholic conservatives to the liberal Catholic conservatives who gathered around Richard John Neuhaus’s First Things twenty years ago. Linker is well-suited to make such comparisons. He was editor of First Things from 2004 to 2005. After […]
“Electing the President” is an amazing digital resource for understanding the popular vote in presidential elections from 1840-2020
I could play around on this site for hours on end. From the website: “Most presidential election maps emphasize the candidates and parties who won or lost the Electoral College. Electing the President shifts the focus to American voters, highlighting the […]
Making sense of the far right’s flags
Over at The Atlantic, Ali Breland gets us oriented. Here is a taste of “A Field Guide to the Flags of the Far Right“: Americans love flying flags. Not just the Stars and Stripes—flags of their state, their city, their […]
What Trump said in 2020 about the way Minnesota governor Tim Walz handled the George Floyd protests
Donald Trump was “very happy” with the way Walz handled the Minneapolis rioters. Here ABC News: In the hours after Vice President Kamala Harris announced Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, allies of former President Donald Trump rushed to denigrate the […]