I am on the road this month so my reaction to news stories has been a bit slower than usual. Today I finally got caught up on the responses to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address: Watch the entire […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: In praise of Churchill and FDR Anna Kornbluh on our obsession with individualism. The small group of White House staffers who prepared the way for Gerald Ford months before Nixon […]
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The Founding Fathers and Super Tuesday 2024
āIgnorance and despotism seem made for each other.ā
Evangelical roundup for March 7, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? How evangelicals became a voting bloc. More on evangelicals defending immigrants. Tim Tebow testifies before Congress and talks about a “biblical definition of hope” for sexually abused children. A World Vision staff member is […]
Susan Wise Bauer on her experience at Liberty University
Some of you know Susan Wise Bauer as a gifted narrative historian and one of the leaders of the classical homeschool movement. I don’t know many homeschoolers who have not read her book The Well Trained-Mind: A Guide to Classical […]
More cherry-picking from the Bartons
Watch the clip below. Tim Barton, the president of Wallbuilders, is speaking at an evangelical congregation: So what is Tim Barton doing here? He wants his audience to believe that the founders sought national unity at the time the Revolution […]
The 19% are still here!
Back in 2018, I wrote Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. I dedicated the book “To the 19 percent.” This, of course, is a reference to the 19% of white evangelical Christian voters who did not vote for […]
Writing in notebooks
The picture above are just a few of my writing notebooks. I fill these notebooks with ideas for books, blog posts, op-eds, magazine articles, book chapters, etc. They include early drafts of published pieces, grant deadline reminders, diary-like entries on […]
Why are so many Israelis silent about Palestinian suffering?
Oded Na’aman, a philosophy professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, provides the numbers: Around 1,200 Israelis were killed on October 7, of them around 370 soldiers and 800 civilians; 242 Israeli soldiers have been killed since Israelās offensive began; 239 […]
North Carolina Republicans pick Mark Robinson as their gubernatorial candidate
In November 2024, voters in the North Carolina governor’s race will have the opportunity to vote for a man who: His name is Mark Robinson and he currently holds the position of Lieutenant Governor. Tonight he won the The Tar […]
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Big changes at Trinity International University, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the Evangelical Free Church
If I am reading the situation correctly: It is all explained in this press release: On Thursday, February 15, Nicholas Perrin, President of Trinity International University, tendered his resignation to the TIU Board of Regents, effective February 29, 2024. Dr. […]
Independent Arizona senator Krysten Sinema will not run for re-election
Perhaps the bipartisan immigration bill she worked on with James Lankford and Chris Murphy was the last straw. Watch:
The U.S. Department of Education hits Liberty University with a $16 million penalty for creating a culture of fear on campus
Back in October 2023 we brought your attention to Liberty University’s failure to keep its students safe. One campus safety consultant called the U.S. Department of Education’s review the “the most blistering Clery report I have ever read. Ever…I cannot […]
Jane Kamensky, the new president of Monticello, prepares for the 250th commemoration of the nation’s founding
Last October, we noted that historian Jane Kamensky will be the new president of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. In a recent interview with the American Historical Association, Kamensky reflects on her role at Monticello in light of the 250th commemoration of […]
Let a 1000 president-inspired insurrections bloom!
Yesterday, the Supreme Court overturned the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado. I am not a legal scholar, but doesn’t this decision suggest that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the United […]
Evangelical roundup for March 4, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Peter Wehner asks: “Where did evangelicals go wrong?“ Randall Balmer on evangelicals and music. World Vision responds to the Texas wildfire: Evangelicals vs. the GOP on immigration reform. Also here. Latino evangelicals and Christian […]
Politico’s Heidi Przybyla responds to critics of her “Christian nationalism” comments
Last month Politico journalist Heidi Przybyla told Michael Steele of MSNBC that people who believe human rights come from God are Christian nationalists. We addressed her comments here and here. As we covered last week in one of our Evangelical […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: James Davison Hunter: “We now simply lack an adequate vocabulary for making moral judgments or for directing moral action in our public or private lives.” Abandoned churches On intellectual humility […]