Hesston College is a tiny (325 students) Mennonite school in Hesston, Kansas. Here is Tim Huber at Anabaptist World: Hesston College faculty members on Sept. 5 voted to express no confidence in President Joseph A. Manickam. The motion cited āfailure […]
SUNY-Potsdam puts 14 degree programs on the chopping block. Mostly liberal arts.
The hits keep coming. Most of these proposed cuts are liberal arts programs. I am sure Daniel K. Williams, Christopher Gehrz, Sarah Huffines, Daniel Hummel, Dixie Dillon Lane (see here), Shirley Mullen, Betsy Lasch-Quinn, and Brad Frey might have something […]
More evangelicals criticize Trump on abortion
We’ll have our regular evangelical roundup tomorrow, but here are a few more responses to Trump’s new view on abortion. (Get up to speed here and here and here.) Sean Feucht is trying to have it both ways: Al Mohler […]
Four myths about working with a university press
Check out Rebecca Colesworthy piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Colesworthy is an acquisition editor at SUNY-Press. Here are the myths: Read the entire piece here.
What did Richard Nixon write in the margins of his books?
Today The Atlantic is running a fascinating piece by Andrew Ferguson on researching Nixon’s marginalia. Here is a taste: Call it coincidence, serendipity, an aligning of the planetsāwhatever the term, the moment was creepy and amusing all at once. I […]
Trump’s pro-Unionism and changes on abortion show an “eagerness to win even at the expense of ideological consistency”
Here is Ross Douthat at The New York Times: In the last week, the man whose judicial appointees overturned Roe v. Wade and whose administration was reliably hostile to unions has condemned the six-week abortion ban signed by DeSantis, promised […]
“You’re nobody until somebody hates you”
I am looking forward to seeing Richard Dewey’s film, Radical Wolfe: Journalist, Satirist, Iconoclast. In the meantime, here is a taste of John Tierney’s review at City Journal: Wolfe went on writing in his inimitable voice for theĀ Herald TribuneĀ Sunday supplement, […]
Prolifers are outraged about Trump’s abortion comments on “Meet the Press”
I wrote yesterday: Essentially, Trump is throwing the pro-life movement under the bus. He and his team believe that they can win in 2024 with a more moderate pro-life view on abortion. To put this more crudely, pro-life conservative evangelicals […]
Will evangelicals turn on Trump after his “Meet the Press” abortion comments?
The evangelicals and politics angle to the 2024 election just got more interesting! Essentially, Trump is throwing the pro-life movement under the bus. He and his team believe that they can win in 2024 with a more moderate pro-life view […]
“And Pharaoh hardened his heart”: Will Donald Trump’s abortion claims on “Meet the Press” open a new lane for Ron DeSantis?
During the August 2023 GOP presidential debate, Nikki Haley said that Americans “need to stop demonizing” the issue of abortion. Watch: Most conservative evangelicals I know side with Pence in this debate. Haley repeated this argument over the weekend at […]
A Prayer before Study
Creator of all things,true Source of light and wisdom,lofty origin of all being,graciously let a ray of Your brilliancepenetrate into the darkness of my understandingand take from me the double darknessin which I have been born,an obscurity of both sin […]
Evangelical roundup for September 18, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? The splintering of Canadian Reformed evangelicalism. DeSantis continues to try to make a dent in Trump’s support among evangelicals. Rhyne Putnam reviews Thomas McCall, The Doctrine of Good Works: Reclaiming a Neglected Protestant Teaching. […]
Fact-checking Trump on “Meet the Press”
In case you missed it, NBC News journalist Kristen Welker began her new gig as host of the “Meet the Press” with a Donald Trump interview. This morning NBC News published a piece fact-checking Trump: “Former President Donald Trump made […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The current state of the academic history job market. Right-wing House Republican Ken Buck will not go along with McCarthy’s impeachment plans. David French on the battle over abortion. Drew […]
Os Guinness keeps pushing his faulty American Revolution vs. French Revolution thesis
Watch Christian commentator and author Os Guinness at the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand Summit”: Guinness sounds like an old Federalist–a defender of order. He, of course, is free to take such a position. But his view of the […]
Messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn at Family Research Council event: “We are at war.”
I was recently talking to a conservative evangelical Christian who has read all of Messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn‘s books. Cahn has a huge following in the certain sectors of the evangelical world. Back in 2019, The New York Times ran […]
When it comes to the MAGA media infrastructure, Lauren Boebert can do no wrong.
Get up to speed here and here. Watch a clip of Boebert’s recent interview with Dan Ball of One America News:
Environmentalism as the next pro-life movement?
According to Harvard’s Chika O. Okafor, the next pro-life argument will be green. Here is his piece at Lebanon (NH) Valley News:
Happiness guru Arthur Brooks is writing books with Oprah
I remember Arthur Brooks as the president of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that champions free market solutions to social problems. Back in 2011 he came to Messiah University (the school where I teach) to debate Jim […]
Steven Mintz on “the left”
Over at Inside Higher Ed, historian Steven Mintz helps us make sense of the American left. Here is a taste of his piece, “What Does It Mean to Be a Leftist in 2023?“: Today, the left takes many different forms. […]