The unexpected resonances of a dreary presidential campaign
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Why are so many Israelis silent about Palestinian suffering?
Oded Na’aman, a philosophy professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, provides the numbers: Around 1,200 Israelis were killed on October 7, of them around 370 soldiers and 800 civilians; 242 Israeli soldiers have been killed since Israel’s offensive began; 239 […]
The Author’s Corner with Ralph Young
Ralph Young is Professor of Instruction in History at Temple University. This interview is based on his new book, American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent (NYU Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write American Patriots? RY: What inspired […]
The Donut Principle of Democracy
Recognizing the sweet taste of compromise
What is happening at the American Bible Society?
My book The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society ends just before the society’s 200th anniversary in 2016. If you want to get a sense of what has happened to this storied benevolent society since then, check […]
The Author’s Corner with John William Nelson
John William Nelson is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University. This interview is based on his new book, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). JF: What […]
What Does the Second Anniversary of the Invasion of Ukraine Mean?
For many reasons, it’s a question we would rather not consider
About that Beth Allison Barr blurb
People are wondering how, in my recent piece in The Atlantic, I could be critical of Beth Allison Barr’s book The Making of Biblical Womanhood after I wrote a blurb endorsing it when it first appeared in print. That’s a […]
Do young “breakthrough scholars” in US history still exist?
Rumors of the death of US history have been greatly exaggerated.
The Prophetic Voice You May Not Have Heard
Letha Dawson Scanzoni’s legacy lives on
John Burger’s At the Foot of the Cross: Lessons from Ukraine
We’ve seen a lot of repetition of history these past two years.
REVIEW: The Crack-Up of the American Evangelical Church?
A historian finds herself nodding along with Tim Alberta’s hopeful vision for American evangelicalism
REVIEW: Whose Kingdom, Power, and Glory?
A former GOP insider finds himself nodding along with Tim Alberta’s damning portrait of the Christian Right
Mitt Romney: Some Trump voters are “are out of touch with reality”
Earlier this week I received a query from a journalist who covers the United States for a conservative Protestant daily newspaper in the Netherlands affiliated with the Calvinist Reformed Political Party. (Follow the links to the paper and its party. […]
A liberal arts education is good for your mental health
Rosario Ceballo is a psychologist, expert on adolescent development, and dean of Georgetown University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Here is a taste of her piece at Inside Higher Ed: I began my role as dean of the College of […]
Is bad history protected under the free speech clause of the First Amendment?
I mentioned this story in today’s Evangelical Roundup, but I thought it deserved its own post. In case you missed it, David Barton, the political activist who uses the American past to promote his Christian Right agenda, is suing the […]
American secularization hasn’t followed the script that secularization theory would predict
Secularization in the U.S. hasn’t proceeded along the lines that secularization theory predicted. Why not? What does it all mean?
“Some college”: The category that shows benefits of small colleges for students
When we consider college completion rates, the type of institution matters. Small private colleges have the lowest drop-out rates of all.
Ideas in Progress: Pearl J. Young on southern religion and the Civil War
A physics major turned historian tells about her research.
Pamela Paul: “a person can oppose racism on firm ethical or philosophical or pragmatic grounds without embracing Kendi’s conception of antiracism.”
Pamela Paul, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is the latest to use the Ibram X. Kendi controversy at Boston University to critique Kendi’s philosophy of “antiracism.” Here is Paul: “…many major universities, corporations, nonprofit groups […]