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Evangelical roundup for August 3, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Karen Swallow Prior talks to Russell Moore about The Evangelical Imagination. The founder of a British Pentecostal credit union has died. Is The King’s College actually closing? More here. Oral Roberts University signs its […]
What is it going to take for candidates to get on stage for the second GOP presidential debate?
The second GOP debate will take place at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California on September 27, 2023. Alex Isenstadt of Politico is reporting that it is going to be difficult for candidates to get on the stage. Here […]
Responses to Trump’s third federal indictment
Donald Trump is now facing federal indictments in three different jurisdictions with a probable fourth indictment (Georgia) on its way. In case you missed it, yesterday Trump was indicted over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Here are some of […]
“Arguments with everyone”
Over at The Bulwark, Ronald Radosh reviews Martin Peretz’s memoir The Controversalist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center. Peretz is the former editor of The New Republic. Here is a taste of Radosh’s review: WRITING RECENTLY IN HISĀ New YorkĀ magazine […]
Ann Sprigg’s boarding house and the end of slavery
Here is historian Bennett Parten at Zocalo Public Square: In the early 1840s, where the steps of the Library of Congress now stand, a group of American abolitionists gathered in a modest boardinghouse to plot the destruction of slavery. The […]
Siena-New York Times poll shows Trump with a massive lead
The poll was conducted from July 23-27 among “the likely electorate in the Republican primary”: Other observations: The poll asked GOP primary voters about where they get their news. Here are the results:
George Will gives a bump to Doug Burgum’s presidential campaign
Until I read Will’s column, the only thing I knew about North Dakota governor Doug Burgum was his gift card strategy. Here is a taste of Will’s “Meet the unusually qualified presidential candidate you’ve never heard of“: If he ever […]
Evangelical roundup for July 31, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Tish Harrison Warren talks to Russell Moore about the state of American evangelicalism. Why are evangelicals leaving the faith? Arthur Gay, RIP Justin Giboney on the Florida African American history standards: Christianity Today tackles […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: 29 rules for reading James Lasdun reviews Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an American Commune Robert Bellah: A socialist who insisted democracy needs religion. […]
GOP candidates were together in Iowa yesterday. Will Hurd won the night.
Last night all of the GOP candidates for president spoke at the Iowa Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Dinner. Most of the candidates delivered shortened versions (10-minutes) of their stump speeches. Watch here. The night belonged to former Texas congressman Will […]
The Washington Post “Made By History” column comes to an end
Here is a final word from the current editors of “Made By History”: Six years ago, The Washington Post took a leap of faith and partnered with us to launch Made by History. We shared a commitment to getting the […]
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:
Make America Christian Again
Lessons from a turn-of-the-twentieth-century ātheocratā
Commonplace Book #276
All the pathologies of the woke turn–or rather the anti-scholarly turn–in the humanities were on display in l’affaire James Sweet. To recap: in August 2022, Sweet, the president of the AHA and a historian of slavery, used his monthly column […]
Evangelical roundup for July 27, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Russell Moore on revivalism and evangelical nostalgia Evangelicals: From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump Are Trump evangelicals really evangelical? What kind of fundraising ads do evangelicals prefer? The latest on the demise of the […]
A former undocumented Salvadoran immigrant is now an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington
Over at The Washington Post, Karen Tumulty tells the moving story of Evelio Menjivar-Ayala: Three times in the space of a year, the undocumented teen fleeing war-torn Central America tried and failed to make it over the southern border of […]
Commonplace Book #275
It is vital for historians to reckon with the flaws of their profession as an institution, not only for their own sake but for the sake of the nation that supports their institution, and to reflect on the ways that […]
A historian of fascism is ready to use the term to describe Trumpism
Up until this point,Christopher Browning, a historian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has not used the word “fascism” to describe Donald Trump and the movement he leads. But it looks like he has changed his mind. Browning is […]
Does a fixation with identity politics hurt the fight against racism?
Over at Jacobin, Taj Ali interviews writer Kenan Malik, the author of Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics. Here is a taste: TAJ ALI: You discuss the decline of cross-racial class […]