Over at USA Today, George Fabe Russell describes House Speaker Mike Johnson’s interview yesterday with George Stephanopoulos: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sunday refused to say former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden. During a heated interview with ABC News’ […]
Way of Improvement
The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth L. Block
Elizabeth L. Block is an art historian and a Senior Editor in the Publications and Editorial Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This interview is based on her new book, Beyond Vanity: The History and Power […]
Heather Richardson: “William McKinley is having a moment”
From “Letters from an American“: William McKinley is having a moment (which I confess is a sentence I never expected to write). Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is elevating McKinley, representative from Ohio from 1877 to 1891 and president from […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: JD Vance and the Trump prophets Michael Dirda reviews Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Intellectual humility Brent Staples reviews David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life […]
Thirty days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Have you heard about “Project 19“? This is charismatic “prophet” Lance Wallnau’s name for the Seven Mountain Dominionist attempt to take 19 counties in the swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election. They are Cobb County (GA), Fulton […]
The Author’s Corner with Rebecca L. Davis
Rebecca L. Davis is Miller Family Early Career Professor of History and Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. This interview is based on her new book, Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and […]
Song of the day
Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz from a Jersey diner
The video was filmed at Roberto’s Freehold Grill in Freehold, NJ
CURRENT’s 2024 Best of the Net nominations
Please join us in congratulating our nominees for this year’s Best of the Net, an annual awards- based anthology for “communities of online literary magazines, journals, and individuals that do the work of creating our digital literary landscape.” For the […]
The Author’s Corner with Lori D. Ginzberg
Lori D. Ginzberg is Professor Emerita of History and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. This interview is based on her new book, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History (University of […]
Happy 100th birthday Jimmy Carter!
The Author’s Corner with Peter Kolchin
Peter Kolchin is Reed Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Delaware. This interview is based on his new book, Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Yale University Press, 2024). JF: What led you […]
Song of the day
RIP, Kris Kristofferson
David Waldstreicher wins the 2024 George Washington Book Prize
Congrats to CUNY early American historian David Waldstreicher, the winner of the 2024 George Washington Book Prize for The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery. Here is the press release: David Waldstreicher has been awarded the […]
CURRENT is looking for a part-time business manager. Come work with us!
Current, an online journal of opinion and commentary, is looking for a part-time Business Manager. The Business Manager will: Current is a trim, shoestring operation with a small budget and few expenses. We strive to be good stewards of the […]
Cornerstone University appears to have stripped the “emeritus” status of a professor who is critical of an administration that surrounds itself with “bullet-proof glass.”
The drama continues at Cornerstone University. Get up to speed here. David L. Turner, a retired Cornerstone University professor, has also been chronicling the sad state of affairs at the Grand Rapids, Michigan Christian college. He spent thirty-two years on […]
Romance writing, sports journalism, and narrative history
I don’t think I have ever read a romance novel, but I have read a lot of sports journalism. Over at LitHub, Jamie Harrow chronicles the similarities between writing romance novels and writing about sports. It’s a really interesting piece. […]
The Author’s Corner with Katie Singer
Katie Singer is a public scholar, writer, and activist. This interview is based on her new book, Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark (Rutgers University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Alien Soil? KS: I wrote Alien […]
For the record: If a flight attendant tells you to have a “blessed” evening while exiting an aircraft it is not a marker of “creeping Christian nationalism”
Sometimes those on the cultural left say the quiet part out loud. In doing so they reveal the same level of ignorance found on the MAGA right. Apparently Clara Jeffery, the editor of left-wing Mother Jones magazine, was offended when […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Is Marilynne Robinson “illiberal?” Samuel Moyn reviews two new books on “equality” Patrick Iber wonders if Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes still holds up today Emily Dickinson’s house is […]