Way of Improvement
What’s the difference between the Trump candidate and the Pence candidate in the Arizona GOP governor’s race?
Trump is backing Kari Lake in the primary. Lake is a former television news journalist. Mike Pence is backing Karrin Taylor Robson. Robson is a former member of the Arizona Board of Regents, a lawyer, and businesswoman. Read more here. […]
Al Gore compares climate deniers to Uvalde, Texas police
Police officers in Uvalde, Texas waited 77 minutes before acting to save elementary school children at Robb Elementary School. Watch: On Sunday, Al Gore compared the lack of action on the part of these officers to those who deny the […]
You can’t make this stuff up
If you have the stomach to learn more about how the Trump evangelicals are using Christianity to undermine the American republic, you may want to follow Ron Filipkowski on Twitter. In December 2020, Filipkowski, a Republican lawyer, resigned his position […]
Doug Mastriano and an Arizona election denier (among other things) exchange endorsements
Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers just endorsed Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Douglas Mastriano. Here is press release from Rogers’s website: Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers (R) announced on Wednesday that she is endorsing Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano (R), who […]
Evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht is making A LOT of money promoting Trumpism and the Big Lie
In 2019, pro-Trump evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht, an Oral Roberts University graduate who was a worship leader at Bethel Church in Redding, California and a former candidate for Congress, made $280,000. In 2020, he made $5.3 million. What happened? […]
Nazis show up for the Turning Point USA event in Tampa
Just to be clear, they were there to support Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the other speakers, including Donald Trump. Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA condemned the Nazi flags outside his recent conference. But why did these people think Kirk’s […]
What is the deadliest road in America?
Over at VOX, Marin Cogan has a piece on the deadliest road in the United States. It is located in Florida. Cogan writes: “Out of the 60 hot spots they identified as having a high number of deaths, seven of them […]
Cornel West on identity politics
West’s thoughts here come from the transcript of a conversation on identity politics between West, philosopher Judith Butler, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and Simon Critchley. The entire transcript is at Public Seminar. Here is West: I want to begin, really, with […]
Song of the Day
On the value of music in the history classroom
Twenty-two years ago, when I regularly taught the second half of the United States history survey (I’ve never taught it at Messiah University), I used a lot of music in class. I still have a small CD collection from those […]
The Wall Street Journal on Trump’s dereliction of duty on January 6th
Straight from the editorial page of the conservative-leaning newspaper which also happens to be the newspaper with the largest circulation in the United States: No matter your views of the Jan. 6 special committee, the facts it is laying out […]
The “Jane Doe” in the Liberty University sexual assault case speaks out
Here is WFXR reporter Rhian Lowndes: For the first time since multiple Title IX allegations involving mishandled sexual assault cases were made in lawsuits against Liberty University, WFXR News is hearing from one of the two dozen women accusing the […]
The Kansas City Star on Josh Hawley’s manliness
The Missouri Senator’s hometown newspaper pulled no punches after seeing Hawley’s run through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: Josh Hawley is a laughingstock. During Thursday night’s televised hearings of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, coup […]
The Claremont Institute in the wake of January 6th
The conservative pro-Trump think tank has a John Eastman problem. Here is Marc Fisher and Isaac Stanley-Becker at The Washington Post: Early in 2016, as Donald Trump’s march toward the Republican presidential nomination gathered the air of inevitability, alumni of […]
Evangelical roundup for July 25, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelical politics: a call for renewal. David French: “There is no remaining Christian case for Trump.” Darryl Hart on conservative Presbyterians. Shane Claiborne endorses Ethan Hawke: Brazilian presidential candidates court the evangelical vote. A […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: A new development in the Emmett Till tragedy The best places to catch some baseball history Two new books on the state of American democracy The January 6th Committee and […]
Song of the Day
On climate change, ‘the perfect should not become the enemy of the good”
I just got home from a three-week research trip and my lawn is out of control. But I can’t mow it because it’s nearly 100-degrees here in Pennsylvania. (Ok, I can mow it, but I don’t want to pass out […]
Springsteen is going on tour. I don’t think I can afford to see him
Springsteen has upcoming shows in State College, Baltimore, Newark, Brooklyn, Philadelphia. Ticketmaster is selling some seats for as high as $4,300. The worst seats in the house are going for $185.00 before fees. For the last fifteen or so years […]