Steven Watts is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri. This interview is based on his new book, Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People (Cambridge University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Citizen Cowboy? […]
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The Author’s Corner with James Tejani
James Tejani is Associate Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University. This interview is based on his new book, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America (W. W. Norton […]
An Unholy Traffic
The Confederacy’s slave markets help us grasp the cost of freedom
Blessing of Unicorns: Peculiar or weird, a book-loving burglar, writing in books, and more!
In this week’s Unicorns roundup, essays on what it means for Christians to be a peculiar people, one book-loving burglar, how to read philosophy, and more.
Ready to take a chance again
As the old song goes, we’re ready to take a chance again. Who knows what the next year will bring.
Byung-Chul Han: An interview with Steven Knepper, Ethan Stoneman, and Robert Wyllie
A new book on “the internet’s new favorite philosopher”–an interview with the authors.
Please Walk on the Grass
Toronto helps us remember the promise of the word ‘social’Â
David French is voting for Harris-Walz. What are his fellow evangelicals saying about the decision?
In his most recent New York Times column, David French announced that he will be voting for Harris-Walz in November in order to “save conservatism from itself.” Here is a taste: It is fascinating to me that there are voices […]
FORUM: Fiftieth Anniversary of Nixon’s Resignation, Day Two
Altered vistas, unexpected hope
FORUM: Fiftieth Anniversary of Nixon’s Resignation, Day One
Reflections on long-tangled webs
Finding Faith in British Politics
There is nothing inevitable about the way American evangelicals and politics are intertwined
REVIEW: Animal Spirits?
Jackson Lears takes us where few historians have dared—or even seen
REVIEW: The Iconoclast
Jackson Lears’s lifelong quarrel with the meritocracy that produced him
Live blogging night 4 of the GOP convention
It’s Trump’s turn tonight. Check out our coverage of night 1, night 2, and night 3. ***** U. S. Senator Steve Daines of Montana. He is the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Says that this morning on his […]
Albert Mohler’s theology is not particularly helpful for explaining what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania over the weekend
In his take on the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes: For Donald Trump, his last breath could have come yesterday, broadcast to the entire world. Thankfully, that was not the […]
We Are Not Serious People
Our outrage has proven ineffective. What might that mean?
The chair of Cornerstone University’s Board of Trustees responds to the school’s cuts in arts and humanities (UPDATED)
Are you new to this story? Get up to speed here. The alumni of Cornerstone University recently received this statement from Richard S. Koole, chair of the Cornerstone University Board. Current was able to obtain a copy: Fellow Alumni, Like […]
Where are the conservatives and pluralists in higher education?
Steve Teles, a political scientist at The Johns Hopkins University, writes: “The university’s ideological narrowing has advanced so far that even liberal institutionalists–faculty who believe universities should be places of intellectual pluralism and adhere to the traditional academic norms of […]
The Author’s Corner with Aaron W. Marrs
Aaron W. Marrs is on the staff of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State. This interview is based on his new book, The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024). […]
Rabbit Food
Living requires flexing—for persons and for cultures, tooÂ