Donald Trump recently released a new executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Let’s break it down. Trump writes: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States […]
Search Results for: What can you do with a history major
“No one is going to pay you to do things that can be done as easily as having AI write your essays for you. How are you going to acquire skills that may actually be valuable?”
Jim Cullen, a history teacher at Greenwich County Day School and a Current contributing editor, talks to his class: We’re in my “Money and Morals” elective, where we’ve been reading Hernan Diaz’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning 2022 novel Trust, a fun-house mirror of postmodernism […]
January 6th pardons
Almost all the 1500+ rioters have been pardoned by President Trump. What should we make of this?
American Carnage 2.0
The new president did not use the phrase “American carnage” today like he did in his 2016 inaugural address, but it sounded like the same speech. The central theme was that America sucks, but Trump will restore a “golden age.” […]
Liberals “abandoned the truism that arguments are true or false, irrespective of the race or the origins of the person who makes them.”
Michael Ignatieff is the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Here is a taste of his New York Times piece, “I was born liberal. Defeat taught me our hidden reslience.” Ignatieff writes: “To rebuilt liberalism, we’ll need to […]
LONG FORM: Can Christians Write?Â
Make no mistake: Christian art offers a distinctive gift to the world
Peter Wood’s “Black Majority” turns 50
When I started teaching colonial American history twenty-five years ago, Peter Wood’s Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina was on the syllabus. I used to teach it alongside Edmund Morgan’s American Slavery-American Freedom. (Today my students no […]
Albert Mohler is free to advance his Christian nationalism, but he should be more careful when using American history to do it.
Albert Mohler believes that the United States was built, and should continue to be built, on a Christian foundation. Read his entire argument here. The piece stems from his 2024 speech to the National Conservatism Conference. Let’s see how Mohler […]
Mike Pence: If RFK Jr. is confirmed he “would be the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history.”Â
We’ve been saying it for the last twenty-four hours. Now Mike Pence has joined us. Here is the former vice-president: “The Trump-Pence administration was unapologetically pro-life for our four years in office. There are hundreds of decisions made at HHS […]
Brooks: “I’m also seeing many people who are…so imprisoned by their mental models, they can interpret these results only in identity politics terms”
Today at The New York Times David Brooks offers a stinging critique of identity politics in the wake of the 2024 election. Here are a couple of snippets: Why were so many of our expectations wrong? Well, we all walk […]
Don’t call it a realignment: Thoughts on the 2024 election
Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for another wild ride.
Thank You and Goodbye
Harris has my vote. She doesn’t have my allegiance.
American Christian voters and third parties: a historical overview
While third-party voting has never been the norm among American Christians, it has a long history.
Interview: Timothy Larsen on George MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul
Timothy Larsen is the McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College. He is a Contributing Editor at Current and as of this summer, the author of four books on the nineteenth-century Scottish George MacDonald. This […]
You’ve got to get a group together!
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” It is an old proverb, but it applies in more areas than people might realize.
Raphael Warnock’s “American covenant” and where his vision for a Micah 6:8 nation goes off the rails
Raphael Warnock delivered a real stemwinder last night at the Democratic National Convention. Speeches like this remind me of why I felt compelled to argue in 2018 that the early civil rights movement provides the best historical model for evangelicals, […]
REVIEW: God Gave Rock & Roll to You
The historical effects of Jesus Music roll on and on
Live blogging night 2 of the 2024 Republican National Convention
Coming soon. In the meantime, check out our coverage of night 1. ***** Is the GOP unified? Maybe. But old GOP rivalries die hard. Remember when Matt Gaetz managed to get Kevin McCarthy removed as Speaker of the House? Remember […]
How are evangelicals responding to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump?
Many are offering thoughts and prayers today for former president Donald Trump and our nation. Trump’s supporters and his critics are condemning political violence. Here are how evangelical Christians are responding: Christianity Today has a piece here. Franklin Graham: Southern […]
Ishmael Reed to Cornel West: “Are you sure you want to help install a dictatorship?”
The work of Ishmael Reed got on my radar screen after he started criticizing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton. In fact, Reed was so critical of Hamilton that he wrote an entire play titled The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda (2019). […]