Is society a conspiracy against freedom? Or is it freedom’s hope?
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A Media Holiday
What would happen if we all took a month off?
What is “Elite Evangelicalism”?
The problem with elitism has little to do with status. It has everything to do with love.
Republic of Letters, Republic of Books
To give up on reading is to give up on America
When Pro-Lifers Turn Pro-Choice
Intellectual integrity requires a different politics from what the Kansas GOP has on offer
Aspire to Be an Accountant?
The world needs accountants, businesspeople, doctors and nurses, engineers, and physical therapists. But we also need professionally-trained men and women who know how to engage the world in a thoughtful and responsible way.Â
How the Party of the College Educated Became the Party Opposed to College
A class divide over education portends danger for a democratic people
Evangelical roundup for September 23, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? The majority of white evangelical Protestants believe Donald Trump is a “true patriot.” When the KKK funded Billy Sunday: The president of the National Association of Evangelicals meets with Biden. Men’s groups are reading […]
Make Historiography Great Again?
Historiographical intervention may animate the profession’s ambitious social climbers. But is it winning any readers in the general public?
Catholics and Evangelicals Together—Again!
If libertarianism has recently united these old foes, maybe opposition to it can, too
The Author’s Corner with Brian Ogren
Brian Ogren is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Rice University. This interview is based on his new book, Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World (New York University Press, 2021). […]
The Author’s Corner with Bryan Rindfleisch
Bryan Rindfleisch is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University. This interview is based on his new book, Brothers of Coweta: Kinship, Empire, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Muscogee World (University of South Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What led you […]
The Author’s Corner with Robert S. Levine
Robert S. Levine is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Maryland. This interview is based on his new book, The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021). JF: […]
Is the world getting more dangerous?
Jonathan Last, the editor of the The Bulwark, thinks so. In his recent piece he focuses on anti-mask violence and a potential coup in Brazil. Is Last right? Is the world indeed getting more dangerous? I am not sure how […]
John MacArthur had COVID-19 in December 2020 as the virus swept through Grace Community Church
So let’s begin this post with a little history. In late May 2020, John MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, announced that the church would return to face-to-face worship for the first time since the […]
Evangelical roundup for August 23, 2021
What is going on in Evangelical land? For evangelicals, caring about refugees is a non-negotiable part of a Christian life. Here’s the latest from the Standing for Freedom Center at Liberty University. Preaching politics is just fine, but apparently the […]
Recovered from the archives: “An Open Letter to the Students of Charis Bible College”
Yesterday a reader told me that he was searching for this 2016 post and couldn’t find it. It seems to have disappeared from The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog. But I managed to find it at another site on […]
Josh Hawley said “folks should look and see what’s in this [bipartisan infrastructure] bill.” So I did.
Tomorrow morning the Senate will pass the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. Not everyone is happy about it. Some GOP senators, including Mike Lee (UT), Rick Scott (FL), Ron Johnson (WI), Josh Hawley (MO), have denounced it. They will lose […]
Plague Theology
In this pandemic, apocalyptic revelation abounds
Abortion and the Class Divide
Given the class dynamics surrounding abortion, what methods should pro-life advocates adopt?Â