Last month, The Arena ran a piece by historian Jay Green (who is Current‘s Managing Editor) on the 100th anniversary of the Johnson Reed Act. Today, I want to call your attention to the World Socialist Web Site’s interview with […]
Eric Metaxas: “Biden is our Hitler”
Eric Metaxas gained fame in 2009 when he published a deeply flawed biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that was universally panned by Bonhoeffer scholars. In 2016, he endorsed Donald Trump for president in a much-discussed Wall Street Journal op-ed. Here are […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: E.J. Dionne: “Europeans seem to grasp the threat to U.S. democracy better than we do.” How Chris Rufo and company went after David Austin Walsh Jonathan Malesic reviews Cal Newport’s […]
When a British announcer calls a Mets win
I love this. I don’t think I have ever heard a person with a British accent call a baseball game. This was much better than both the FOX (Saturday) and ESPN (Sunday) coverage of the London Series between the Mets […]
The Presbyterian Church in America canceled David French. Today he responds.
We have covered this story here at Current. Check out Marvin Olasky’s piece, “David French is on a panel, oh no!” We also published “The Presbyterian Church in America disinvites David French.” Today French gives his own take on what […]
Evangelical blast from the past:
Amy Grant tackles slavery and the Holocaust in 1988:
When Jimmy Breslin took on the French government in defense of Howard Beach, Queens
The good folks at the Library of America (LOA) recently sent along their collection of New York columnist Jimmy Breslin’s essential writings. (Some of you may recall I wrote about this back in April.) I’m about halfway through the collection. […]
Charlie Kirk at evangelical megachurch: Trump and MAGA are fighting against the “very same totalitarianism” Americans fought against in World War II when they “stormed the beaches of Normandy”
The other day someone asked me if I thought Trump and the MAGA crowd really believed their own rhetoric. I don’t know if Charlie Kirk really believes that Joe Biden and the Democrats are comparable to Hitler and the 1930s […]
Apparently Liberty University’s view on abortion does not even allow an exception for the life of the mother
Am I reading this Tweet correctly? It comes from the public voice of Liberty University–the Standing for Freedom Center. The pro-life movement is divided over whether abortions are morally permissible in cases of incest and rape, but Liberty University seems […]
Donald Trump was against TikTok before he was for it
On August 6, 2020, The Trump administration released this executive order: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the UnitedĀ States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50Ā U.S.C. 1701Ā et seq.) […]
National Association of Evangelicals to Biden: Don’t close the border
Here the press release: The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) today expressed concern about a new Biden administration order closing the border to most asylum seekers and urged Congress to pass comprehensive legislation fixing our broken immigration system.Ā āWhile we […]
Trump, MAGA Southern Baptists, and friends will meet in an Indianapolis sideshow
It is not an official Southern Baptist Convention event, but while delegates from the largest Protestant denomination in the country meet next week in Indianapolis, some of the most conservative and Trumpy members of the convention will gather in what […]
JĆ¼rgen Moltmann: RIP
I missed this story when I was on the road during the last couple of days. I have learned much from Moltmann’s theology of hope. Here is the end of a 2018 piece on evangelicals and Trump that I wrote […]
162-0?
Nine years ago, WFAN (New York City) sports radio host Mike Francesa took this call: I am trying to think of something smart to say about how this video reflects public discourse today. But I think I’ll just let it […]
What is popular this week at CURRENT?
Here are the most popular features of the week atĀ Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week atĀ The Way of Improvement Leads HomeĀ blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week atĀ The ArenaĀ blog:
The New Journalism and the “war over creative nonfiction”
I will start this post with this: If you are a creative nonfiction writer we want to see your work at Current. Maybe this piece by Eric Bennet at The Chronicle of Higher Education will inspire you to send us […]
Song of the Day
Can anyone figure out why this is the song of the day?
The tragedy of American communism
Maurice Isserman is the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College. He is the author, most recently, of Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism. Over at The Guardian, Isserman writes: “I was struck by the mystery of […]
A no hitter in Brooklyn caught by a humble major league catcher
Last night, three minor league pictures–Dakota Hawkins, Joey Lancellott, and Joseph Cornielly–pitched a combined no-hitter as the Brooklyn Cyclones (the Mets’ High A affiliate) defeated the Aberdeen Ironbirds (Baltimore Orioles High A affiliate) 3-0. The current New York Mets starting […]
Who will be the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention?
Next week Southern Baptists will head to Indianapolis for their annual meeting. Religion News Service profiles the presidential candidates: The six candidates are vying for one of the most influential volunteer jobs in American religion. Though unpaid, the SBC president […]