Is this the best way of reaching fellow Christians whose minds we want to change? See my piece today at Religion News Service. A taste: So when do we speak “truth” and when do we hold back, knowing that our […]
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Warren Throckmorton is now fact-checking David Barton on a podcast
The new edition of Warren Throckmorton’s Getting Jefferson Right is here! Current managing editor Jay Green offers a blurb: In Getting Jefferson Right, Throckmorton and Coulter provide a valuable public service to readers in at least two important respects. First, they expose some […]
David George Moore is the evangelical Dick Cavett
Are you familiar with the work of David Moore? You should be. Here is some praise: David Moore has “a fine capacity to stimulate all the glands of curiosity.” –William F. Buckley David Moore “has a unique ability to draw […]
“We are glad we are not them”: How Canadians are thinking about the potential collapse of American democracy
Over at Literary Review of Canada, Pulitzer prize-winning writer and McGill University professor David Marks Shribman reviews Rob Goodman’s Not Here: Why American Democracy is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself. Here is a taste: It once was sufficient […]
Episode 124: “Christian Capitalism in Early America”
In this episode we talk with Wesleyan University historian Joseph Slaughter, author of Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in Early America. He offers a new account of the interplay between religion and capitalism in early American history by focusing on 19th-century […]
The Author’s Corner with Adam R. Nelson
Adam R. Nelson is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This interview is based on his new book, Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University (University of Chicago Press, […]
What happened to United Steelworkers Hall Local 1190?
Over at Compact, Alex Hogan, a speechwriter for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, remembers a Steubenville, Ohio union hall. A taste: Today, it stands—like many former businesses, homes, and churches in Steubenville—empty. The union hall is a victim of […]
The Author’s Corner with Adam R. Nelson
Adam R. Nelson is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This interview is based on his new book, Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America (University of Chicago […]
Evangelical roundup for December 11, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? The New Republic is reporting that Messianic Jews are trying to share the Gospel with Israeli soldiers on the front lines. The author of the piece, Ellie Hardy, suggests that they are “proselytizing” because […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell talk with historian Jennifer Burns about Milton Friedman David French on free speech, censorship, and elite university presidents before Congress. Yascha Mounk takes a similar […]
Albert Mohler on the elite university presidents who testified before congress: “The moral rot starts at the top”
I just want to make sure I get this straight. Albert Mohler, the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: Joined an amicus brief designed to limit his seminary liability for sexual abuse claims. Said he would support Doug Mastriano […]
On that Satanic statue in the Iowa state capitol…
I don’t like this display. I find it offensive. But my views on the display are a bit different than people like MAGA worship-leader and Christian nationalist Sean Feucht: To be short and sweet, I don’t think any religious symbols […]
University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill resigns
Here is CBS News: PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Liz Magill and Scott Bok, two top leaders at the University of Pennsylvania, resigned Saturday after days of criticism and pressure from donors, alumni and Jewish community members following Magill’s comments in a Congressional hearing on campus […]
Is “truth-telling” REALLY the only thing that matters?
So let’s get back to this whole Rob Reiner thing. I’ve enjoyed thinking this through. Thanks for reading. If you have no idea what I am talking about, get up to speed here. This series of tweets is revealing: These […]
History is one of the largest majors at conservative Hillsdale College. Why?
Conservative pundit and First Things senior editor Mark Bauerlein seems to have discovered that the number of history majors in the United States is in steep decline: Here is a link to the 2021 piece he references. The low number […]
My conversation with Katherine Stewart, author of *Power Worshippers*
While folks on Twitter discuss (if you can really call what is happening on Twitter right now “discussion”) when it is appropriate for evangelical scholars, pundits, and influencers to participate in a Rob Reiner movie, I want to share an […]
The U.S. economy is doing very well. Why are some progressive unwilling to accept this fact?
Over at The New York Times, economist Paul Krugman makes a “progressive case for Bidenomics.” Here is a taste: There are two big questions right now about the U.S. economy. One is why it’s doing so well. The other is why […]
Elise Stefanik “knows better”
Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post thinks New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik was “on target” in her grilling of three university presidents (Harvard, Penn, MIT) this week. But I found the first three sentences of Rubin’s piece the most telling: […]
Rob Reiner will release a film about Christian nationalism. It includes A LOT of evangelical talking heads and “influencers”
Hannah Anderson raises a fair question here: You can read Anderson’s thoughts on X. As someone who speaks to the media often, this is something I really wrestle with and will continue to wrestle with. I have been accused many, […]
Peter Wehner to Mike Johnson: “Did the Lord also tell you very clearly to try to overthrow the election” and “lie on behalf of Mr. Trump…Or were those your ideas?”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson believes he is a new Moses, called by God to lead the new Israel–the United States–out of its left-wing captivity. Soon he will be referring to Joe Biden as “Pharaoh.” Here is his acceptance […]