Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox runs the History & Politics major and the Honors Program at Friends University, a small Christian liberal arts college in Wichita, KS, where he has lived with his wife and their daughters since 2006. He is a regular contributor to the localist website Front Porch Republic, the Religious Socialism blog sponsored by Democratic Socialists of America, and the Mormon blog By Common Consent.

REVIEW: How Information Overload Destroyed American Democracy (Maybe)

Russell Arben Fox | August 14, 2024

Can a people survive when truth is beside the point?

LONG FORM: Left Conservatism?

Russell Arben Fox | April 19, 2024

George Scialabba’s lifetime of writing—and our age itself—call forth the category

REVIEW: Bernie, Deneen, and a Left-Conservative Solution

Russell Arben Fox | July 13, 2023

What does our moment require? An aristocratic revolution? Or a democratic reformation?

REVIEW: Bono, Christian Neoliberal (but also, perhaps, a little bit more)

Russell Arben Fox | December 22, 2022

If Bono is a picture of our moment, he’s also used his faith to shape it

Biden’s Philadelphia Speech: Theoretically Coherent, Constitutionally Important

Russell Arben Fox | September 19, 2022

The president’s case against “MAGA Republicans” is strong

FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Two

Anonymous woman, Ellen Tucker, Christopher Shannon, Paul Luikart, Nadya Williams, Adam Jortner and Russell Arben Fox | June 28, 2022

A time to listen

When Pro-Lifers Turn Pro-Choice

Russell Arben Fox | October 5, 2021

Intellectual integrity requires a different politics from what the Kansas GOP has on offer

What Hath Bernie Wrought?

Russell Arben Fox | May 27, 2021

Four months into Biden’s presidency, it’s a question that must be asked