Does Watergate still matter?
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Excess Baggage
Can we still enjoy vacation destinations when we know their fraught histories?
Messiah
A writer remembers Christmas (in July)
Oklahoma announces a “complete overhaul” of its social studies curriculum. The state is relying on an “A-List Executive Review Committee” of conservative activists
Here is the Washington Examiner: Oklahomaâs top education official is overhauling the stateâs social studies curriculum to emphasize American exceptionalism to combat what he says is left-wing messaging that teaches children to âhate America.â In a document obtained by the Washington Examiner, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction […]
Eric Metaxas on why ministers who don’t preach politics, and Christians who attend their churches, are under judgment
Billy Hallowell interviews Eric Metaxas on Christians and politics. Watch: OK, let’s break this down: 00:50: I think Metaxas really believes he is a prophet from God. He seems to know the will of the God. This makes sense, because […]
The Trump intellectuals
Many of them gather at the Claremont Institute in Southern California. Here is a taste of Ruth Graham’s New York Times piece, “Why a New Conservative Brain Trust is Resettling Across America”: The Claremont Institute has been located in Southern […]
A Primer on Peace
Give plain speech a chance
American Ghosts
George Saundersâ novel is a vital foil to Thornton Wilderâs famous play
The End of Roe: Two Years Later
In the absence of a unifying vision, turmoil takes its toll
SUMMERING: The Man Himself
Love big. Love hard. With risks intact.
REVIEW: Manhood, Patriarchy, and Father Time
A new study reveals what evolutionary biology canâand canâtâillumine about fatherhood
Race, Class, and Religion in a Northern New Jersey Town
I had no idea âborn-again Christiansâ were living in my midst
Tony Evans: “I am stepping away from my pastoral duties and am submitting to a healing and restoration process established by the elders…”
It looked like the biggest story from Evangelical land today was going to be the annual meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention and Presbyterian Church in America. Then this story broke on the website of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, the […]
A Childhood on the Periphery
Growing up New Jersey working class in the 1970s
What is going on at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello?
In January, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed resigned from the board of Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson. Here is a taste of Jason Armesto’s January 2, 2024 piece at The Daily Progress: It is not clear why Gordon-Reed, […]
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag was a revolutionary-era symbol. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag is a Christian Nationalist symbol
Not familiar with the Samuel Alito “Appeal to Heaven” flag controversy? Get up to speed here. I am seeing a lot of tweets like this: What Reed and Pence fail to recognize is that symbols like the Pine Tree Flag […]
The Particulates of Doom
In which dinosaurs, oil, and drilling come together to make fiction happen
Seeking Intellectual Freedom
In an age of echo chambers, where can we encounter views different from our own?
Growing Up Italian-American
My great-grandfather was a Mediterranean sheepherder who fell in love and came to America for a better life
Where the Wild Things Were
The restoration of our humanity may turn on one honest face