The quote in the title of this post comes from writer Garrison Lovely‘s recent Jacobin piece, “Can Humanity Save AI?” Here is a taste: One of the more influential ideas in x-risk circles is the unilateralist’s curse, a term for situations […]
Damon Linker urges Democrats to pick a new presidential candidate
Writer Damon Linker, a former conservative (he was once editor of First Things), is the latest to claim that Biden’s decision to run again is a selfish act. He makes the case today at The Atlantic: The Democratic Party is […]
Texas GOP congressman Chip Roy: Democrats want to “end Western civilization” with open borders
Here is Ben Metzner at The New Republic: Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy may have stirred up disunity in the GOP earlier this year with his threats to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, but he’s in lockstep with the rest of his […]
February 8, 2024 revealed a democracy about to fall off a cliff and the American people didn’t bother to “get off the couch.”
Here is Will Bunch of The Philadelphia Inquirer: Some night around the year 2064, when the ragtag children of the last historians huddle around a cave fire and mix up some berries and the blood of their groundhog dinner to […]
“Elite hypocrisy on marriage”
Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, writes: “The privileged classes would never dream of saying one form of family life is better than another. So why are they always married?” Here is a taste: “Is it […]
Is Joe Biden’s decision to run again an act of selfishness?
Biden is running for president again at the age of 81. I voted for him in 2020 believing he would serve one-term, get the country back on track after the disastrous Trump years, and then ride off into the sunset. […]
Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, eulogizes George Washington
I was in Mount Vernon last weekend for a gala event to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Pohick Church, the Anglican (now Episcopalian) church where George and Martha Washington attended. (George Mason attended as well). It was a great event. […]
As the evangelical deck starts to reshuffle, consider making sense of it all at Current
We have never understood Current as a Christian or religious publication, but we do have a foot in the larger debates surrounding evangelical Christianity. In case you haven’t been paying attention, the evangelical community is going through a lot of […]
Biden jokes about his age and memory
Remember this: And today Joe Biden offered this: I love it! It seems like this is the best way for Biden to address the “age” issue in the wake of the recent special counsel’s report on classified documents.
Evangelical roundup for February 12, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Are evangelicals a minority? Young evangelical support for Israel keeps dropping. Regime evangelicals World Vision on child soldiers: Ukraine evangelicals respond to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin. Justin Giboney on the crisis at the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Eric Banks reviews Benjamin Taylor, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather. Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs: A “balm for our sorely divided nation.” Carter Woodson and Black History […]
About that Beth Allison Barr blurb
People are wondering how, in my recent piece in The Atlantic, I could be critical of Beth Allison Barr’s book The Making of Biblical Womanhood after I wrote a blurb endorsing it when it first appeared in print. That’s a […]
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:
What did the founding fathers mean by “happiness”?
Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center and professor of law at the George Washington University. His new book is titled The Pursuits of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders […]
Evangelical roundup for February 8, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Part of me will always be grateful for James Dobson. I totally agree with Bonnie Kristian: Evangelicals should consider a “journalism tithe.” Rick Warren on certainty: Christian music and Nashville. Willow Creek is closing […]
Embracing Nostalgia
The good old days weren’t always good. But sometimes they were.
Akhil Reed Amar: “Let the states decide whether Trump should be on their ballots”
Yale law professor and author Akhil Reed Amar, one of my go-to commentators on all things constitutional, wrote an amicus brief for the Section 3, 14th Amendment Supreme Court case Trump v. Anderson. Here is a taste of his piece […]
My piece today at The Atlantic
It is titled “Part of Me Will Always Be Grateful for James Dobson.” The subtitle is “Americans deserve a fuller accounting of evangelicalism’s role in our country’s life.” Regular readers of Current will recognize some of these ideas. Here is […]
A quick primer on the Senate border bill
On Sunday, Senate negotiators released the text of a $118 billion bipartisan bill to reform the country’s immigration policies. The negotiators were Jim Lankford (R-Oklahoma), Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), and Krysten Sinema (I-Arizona). Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House of […]
Just how progressive is Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman?
Can a politician still be a “progressive” in today’s Democratic Party if he supports Israel and wants restrictions at the southern border? Adam Gabbatt of The Guardian tackles this question in a piece on Fetterman. Here is a taste: There […]