What might happen if Donald Trump does not get the GOP nomination for president in 2024? Peter Wehner has thought about this. Here is a taste of his recent piece at The Atlantic: It’s begun to dawn on Republicans that […]
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Commonplace Book #239
Yet in how many tiny and inconsiderable trifles is this curiosity of our daily tempted: and how often we slip, who shall number? When people tell idle stories, it happens only too often that we first endure them, lest we […]
Pope Francis: “I think Benedict’s death was instrumentalized”
I recently read a blog post from Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, that used the death of Pope Benedict to score political points. Here is a taste of that post: Ratzinger was a great […]
On Fred Shuttlesworth
Here is a taste of Tish Harrison Warren’s New York Times piece on the late Birmingham civil rights activist: On Sept. 9, 1957, the very day President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act and lawyers sought injunctive relief to force […]
Sometimes the “robber barons” and “greedy thieves” bring “death” to our hometown. Backstreets magazine closes shop.
In July, 2022, the editors of the Bruce Springsteen fan magazine Backstreets responded to outrageously high ticket prices for Springsteen’s current tour. If you aren’t familiar with this story, get up to speed here and here. For the first time […]
Evangelical roundup for February 6, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Pentecostalism A 77-year-old woman is baptized. Bob Smietana on the “He Gets Us” campaign. Wheaton College is doing kingdom work: More on Wheaton: Marvin Olasky on Christian journalism. Russell Moore on police brutality. The […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The history of distraction Rod Dreher responds to this Hollywood’s links to the antebellum South Thomas Chatterton Williams on why he is uneasy with some forms of “anti-wokeness” Steven Kellman […]
Tim Keller hopes for spiritual revival
A lot of conservative evangelicals are calling for spiritual revival these days. Most of these calls are connected directly to a revival of American nationalism as if somehow the purpose of a religious revival is to advance a particular political […]
Charles Koch and his network will oppose Trump in the 2024 GOP primaries
The conservative, libertarian, free-trade organization Americans for Prosperity, led by billionaire businessman Charles Koch, does not want Donald Trump to be the GOP nominee in 2024. Today Emily Seidel, the CEO of Americans for Prosperity, released a memo on the […]
Commonplace Book #238
Throughout modern history, the greatest threat to democracy has come from…the denial of political legitimacy to those who fail to share one’s own views on key issues. Historians have devoted intensive study to the long and painful process by which […]
Commonplace Book #237
The bottom line is that the fate of poor and working-class African Americans–who are unquestionably overrepresented among neoliberalism’s victims–is linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans. Our road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone […]
Rod Dreher in Hungary: “blogging and backtracking”
Here is Hungarian writer Balázs Gulyás on the mess the conservative blogger is making in Hungary: Last week, Rod Dreher, the American author now living in Hungary, caused a diplomatic scandal that has gone largely unnoticed in his home country. […]
The Organization of American Historians responds to the Florida controversy over AP African American Studies
Here is the statement: Last week we learned of the extraordinary decision by Florida’s Department of Education to reject the College Board’s Advanced Placement course on African American Studies in the state’s high schools. Claiming that the course violates Florida […]
College in the age of A.I.
New York Times columnist David Brooks encourages college students to take courses and learn to think in ways that “machines will not replicate.” Here is a taste: If, say, you’re a college student preparing for life in an A.I. world, […]
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:
It was only a matter of time: Jair Bolsonaro and Charlie Kirk join forces
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro is in Florida right now and he wants to stay longer. This makes sense for the Trump-inspired former leader. After all, some of his followers recently tried to storm the Brazilian capitol with the hopes […]
Some evangelicals will be tempted to support Trump in 2024 if it means striking a blow to the LGBTQ community
When Donald Trump was president he said very little about gay marriage and other LGBTQ issues. But when he did speak about the LGBTQ community it was usually positive. In April 2016, The New York Times published a piece by […]
Commonplace Book #236
There they found a small book in which was written the life of Antony. One of them began to read it, marveled at it, was inflamed by it. While we was actually reading he had begun to think how he […]
Evangelical roundup for February 2, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? How evangelicals became climate skeptics. Evangelicals as “second class conservatives.” Spanish evangelicals gather. Evangelicals and manhood. Tim Keller charts his course: Southern Baptist pro-lifers in New Mexico. More on Bruxy Cavey and scandal at […]