Amy Houskamp Nemecek is a senior editor at Baker Publishing Group and the author of The Language of the Birds and Other Poets. She is a graduate of Cornerstone University, a Christian college that just cut virtually all of its […]
What is popular this week at CURRENT?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:
The mind of J.D. Vance
Ian Ward unpacks the intellectual influences that shape the mind of J.D. Vance, Trump’s vice-president pick. They are Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, blogger Curtis Yarvin, deceased philosopher RenĂ© Girard, writer Sohrab Ahmari, the group of […]
Jeff Greenfield: “Trump derailed his own convention speech”
While I was watching the GOP convention last night, I wrote this: In the end, I think this speech is really hurting Trump. He is replaying all the old hits. The assassination attempt has not changed his talking points in […]
Ramaswamy: Vote GOP. We support gay marriage and don’t want to ban abortion.
Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) got into it this week on X. Ramaswamy responded this way: What will the Christian Right think about these claims? Is the GOP now the party of […]
What are evangelicals saying about Trump’s speech last night?
The GOP convention is over. Trump made his case last night in a long, rambling, and undisciplined speech. Check out our live-blogging of the night here. So what are evangelicals saying after the Trump speech? It seems like many MAGA […]
Ben Sasse steps down as president of the University of Florida
From Sasse’s X feed: Dear Gator Nation and cherished friends, This isn’t an easy note to write but wanted to give you an update on our family. As many of you know, my wife Melissa suffered an aneurysm and series […]
Live blogging night 4 of the GOP convention
It’s Trump’s turn tonight. Check out our coverage of night 1, night 2, and night 3. ***** U. S. Senator Steve Daines of Montana. He is the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Says that this morning on his […]
FIRST THINGS magazine asks: “Is the Republican Party becoming pro-choice?”
We just got done watching J.D. Vance and GOP chair Michael Whatley tell members of Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition that the GOP is still the party of the Christian Right. As we have now noted several times here, […]
If you understand French…
I spoke with the Huffington Post about evangelicals and Trump: Read the article version of the story here.
Live blogging the Faith & Freedom Coalition breakfast with J.D. Vance
Vance, a Catholic, is going to have to win over the Christian Right. (Although I have no doubt that they will all vote for him anyway). This morning he takes his first shot at this important GOP constituency. It’s time […]
CNN reporting a phone conversation with Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi about whether the president should stay in the race
Here is M.J. Lee, Jamie Gangel, and Jeff Zeleny: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately told President Joe Biden in a recent conversation that polling shows that the president cannot defeat Donald Trump and that Biden could destroy Democrats’ chances […]
Live blogging night 3 of the 2024 Republican National Convention
Coming soon. In the meantime, check out our coverage of night 1 and night 2. ***** Who is that band? The group playing at the GOP convention is called Sixwire. Learn more about them here. ***** Are we watching a political […]
The GOP invited the head of the Teamsters to speak. The GOP is opposed to organized labor.
Yes, Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Yes, Republicans still hate labor. Timothy Noah explains at The New Republic: Let’s be clear. The Republican Party despises labor unions. Until recently it made little effort to hide […]
How Wilt Chamberlain helped Richard Nixon win Black voters
Here is Shaun Assael at Politico: Wilt Chamberlain, the biggest basketball star in the world, folded his long legs into the taxi and climbed beside Richard Nixon. It was April 9, 1968, and the two had just attended Martin Luther […]
Do assassinations “alter the course of history?”
Historian Steven Mintz offers some context: Do assassins’ bullets hit their marks? Do these acts of violence redirect historical trajectories? In today’s volatile political climate, questions like these are not merely of academic interest. Let’s take a look at the […]
Sean O’Brien’s “return to Gompers”
As we have noted here, Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, spoke Monday night at the TNC (Trump National Convention) in Milwaukee. We covered that speech here and here. Over at Jacobin, Dustin Guastella, the director […]
Evangelicals respond to night 2 of the GOP national convention
Night 2 of the Republican National Convention is in the books. See our live blogging of night 2 here. What are evangelicals saying? Bottom line: I don’t think many of them were watching. Charlie Kirk will be at an evangelical […]
Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-Riaño wants to stop the blood lust. Why his call rings hollow.
Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-Riaño has a piece at The Washington Times titled “America has an unending lust for bloodshed. We need divine intervention.” Read it here. Gerson Moreno-Riaño calls for an end to American “blood lust”: James Fenimore Cooper’s […]
God at the GOP Convention: Night 2
There was more Christian language in the speeches from the convention floor in Milwaukee last night. This is definitely not a Christian Right convention. So far I have not heard a word about abortion or gay marriage. But speakers did […]