Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “A Savior Will Arise from Gettysburg and His Name Shall Be Mastriano“ Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, “Seeing Bathsheba“ Christina Bieber Lake, “Stranger Things: Not So Strange at All“ John […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Baseball is changing David Sedaris writes thank-you notes Cornel West on pragmatism Since Watergate it has become more difficult to hold president’s accountable Harold Myerson reviews Gary Dorrien, American Democratic […]
The Marxist scholar who believes anti-racism is a cover for capitalism
If you listen to some folks on the Right these days you might conclude that there is little difference between the anti-racism and Marxism. But as Benjamin Wallace-Wells reveals in his recent piece on political scientist Adolph Reed, there are […]
Christmas Transcendence
Even a little bit of quiet can take us a long way
Bipartisan Blues?
The infrastructure we need costs more than we know
The Author’s Corner with Eric Herschthal
Eric Herschthal is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah. This interview is based on his new book The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress (Yale University Press 2021). JF: What led you to write The Science […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Cornel West on why the world needs Jesus Osita Nwanevu reviews Alan Taylor’s contributions to early American history Historian Richard White on the downsides of infrastructure spending The history wars […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular Current features of the last week: Michael Kazin, “Evangelicals and Racism: Is There Hope?“ Adam Jortner, “Found Footage: January 6 and the Horror Movies that Made It“ John Haas, “Leaving Afghanistan“ Randall Balmer, “Who Killed Evangelicalism? Chris […]
Mission Possible?
Anyone wondering about the state of the tottering edifice we just a few decades back deemed “the new world order” need only ingest the title of Mariana Mazzucato’s recent New Republic article: “Saving the Climate in a Triple Crisis: A […]
Howard University students protest the loss of the classics department
Last week we called your attention to Howard University’s decision to drop its classics department. Cornel West called it a “spiritual catastrophe.” We now learn that Howard students are not happy about the decision. Here is a taste of Allyson […]
Most popular posts of the last week
Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Howard University drops its classics department. Cornel West calls it a “spiritual catastrophe” Bonus evangelical roundup: What are evangelical leaders saying about the […]
Is Democratic Socialism anti-Christian?
Here is a taste of Stephen Mattson‘s piece at Sojourners: “Why Democratic Socialism Isn’t Anti-Christian“: Contemporary Christians are among those who have embraced the democratic socialist platform as a necessary check against an economy and political system they view as […]
The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth Garner Masarik
Elizabeth Garner Masarik is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Brockport. This interview is based on her new book, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024). […]
Nancy French, Ghosted—a conservative, interrupted
Nancy French’s memoir is a story of God showing love to the weak and redeeming creation while also calling fallible people to restore justice already here on earth.
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 […]
Why did Jonathan Edwards think that slavery was morally right?
A note from the editor: This essay is reposted from the Anxious Bench, where it ran on 09/26/2023. It is much longer than anything else that has ever run on this blog — at nearly 7,000 words, it is the […]
REVIEW: The Education of Beth Moore
Moore’s memoir sheds light on a moment. It also, quite simply, sheds light.
Kid Gloves
If the 1619 Project is bad history why won’t more historians say so?
Are historians attacking the right without asking about the left?
Johann Neem, professor of history at Western Washington University and the editor of the Journal of the Early Republic, thinks so. And he is absolutely right Here is a taste of his review of Kevin Kruse’s and Julian Zelizer’s edited […]
The Author’s Corner with Amy Kohout
Amy Kohout is Associate Professor of History at Colorado College. This interview is based on her new book, Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Taking the […]