A few things online that caught my attention this week: John Loughery reviews David Kertzer’s The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler Rick Perlstein on the long backlash against teaching progress in public schools […]
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Sam Alito get on his high horse in Rome
I wish Sam Alito would just keep his mouth shut and do his job. Every time he speaks publicly he proves that the Supreme Court is just another political institution. This, it seems, was what John Roberts was worried about […]
The Author’s Corner with Rebecca Sharpless
Rebecca Sharpless is Professor of History at Texas Christian University. This interview is based on her new book, Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). JF: What led you to […]
These Truths? Which Truths?
This time science and tech won’t save us
Nostalgia, Wokeness, and Fraggle Rock
If the world is full of change, should our childhoods remain the same?Â
“So many guns…people are reeling.” Thoughts on Highland Park
The shootings are getting closer to “home.” I live nearly 700 miles from Highland Park, Illinois, but I resided in this Chicago suburb for two important years of my life. From 1992-1994 I lived at a now defunct synagogue in […]
The Author’s Corner with Daniel J. Broyld
Daniel J. Broyld is Associate Professor of African American History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. This interview is based on his new book, Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region during the Final Decades of Slavery (LSU Press, […]
Should We Be Impolite?
If incivility always carries a moral cost, we had best be sure it’s justified
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Historian Robert Caro and his editor Michael Brenes reviews Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and Its Discontents Historians and creative liberties. A trip to an antiquarian book fair The responsibility of pro-lifers […]
The Author’s Corner with Anna Koivusalo
Anna Koivusalo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki. This interview is based on her new book, The Man Who Started the Civil War: James Chesnut, Honor, and Emotion […]
FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Four
A time to listen
FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Three
A time to listen
FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Two
A time to listen
Evangelical roundup for June 23, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? More coverage of the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference. Fame and evangelicalism Newsweek goes after Christians who adopt. Pro-life in a post-Roe world: On Southern Baptists as “political whores.” An Evangelical […]
Evangelical roundup for June 20, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Will evangelicals endorse Trump in 2024? Charles Marsh on growing up evangelical. EGOD? The Gospel Coalition on Juneteenth. Beth and Russell: Will the Southern Baptist Convention be “smaller and purer or bigger and more […]
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 Author’s Corner with Paul Escott
Paul Escott is Reynolds Professor of History Emeritus at Wake Forest University. This interview is based on his new book, Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Black Suffrage? PE: My two […]
Episode 38: “The Johnson Amendment”
How to endorse a political candidate without endorsing a political candidate. Episode 38: “The Johnson Amendment” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser: If you […]
The roots of our school wars
Over at Politico, historian Joshua Zeitz traces the roots of our school battles to the 1925 Scopes Trial. Here is a taste: At first glance, today’s school wars seem like a cut and dried case of modernity versus tradition, secularism […]
The Author’s Corner with Josiah Rector
Josiah Rector is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston. This interview is based on his new book, Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). JF: What led you to ​write […]