Many of the former president’s court evangelicals have gone strangely silent
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Evangelical roundup for June 27, 2022: Dobbs v. Jackson edition
How is Evangelical land responding to the overturning of Roe v. Wade? I have long understood these roundups as a form of curation. It’s important to get these responses (or at least some of them) all in one place. David […]
On Doug Mastriano’s 2001 paper “The Civilian Putsch of 2018”
Here is Greg Jaffee of The Washington Post with some context: Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin […]
LONG FORM: Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly
Great transformations of moral perception make debtors of us all—if we have eyes to see
Is the current Republican Party compatible with democracy?
Timothy Shenk asks this question in a review of Matthew Continetti’s book The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservativism. Here is a taste of the review at The New Republic: Of course, January 6 was only the beginning. […]
INTERVIEW: AntĂłn Barba-Kay on the State of the American Center
If politics abhors a void, what will fill the vacated space we once thought of as “the center”?
Maybe the prophets of doom are correct. Perhaps we ARE in the “last days.”
In case you missed it, Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was texting with Donald Trump’s Chief of State Mark Meadows in the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 […]
What can we learn from the people of Ukraine?
Chris Stirewalt asks this question in a recent piece at The Dispatch titled “Ukrainians Hold a Mirror to America’s Egotistical Anxieties.” Here is a taste: It is the natural conceit of every generation in every great power that its own […]
Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia history
Washington Post writer Dana Milbank got his hands on a 7th grade Virginia history textbook used in the commonwealth’s public schools from the 1950s through the 1970s. Here is a taste of his piece: Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin opened a tip line so […]
Episode 33: “The 2004 Republican Convention: Part One”
Compassionate conservatism gives way to Iraq, economic freedom, and Frank Sinatra Episode 33: “The 2004 Republican Convention: Part One” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this narrative history podcast. Here […]
I Can’t Believe McAuliffe’s Fundraising Emails Didn’t Win the Election
The Democrats need to stop annoying voters long enough to save democracy
Good Teachers Don’t Preach Critical Race Theory
They teach critical thinking
Gordon Wood and Woody Holton will debate the meaning of the American Revolution
Learn how to watch Saturday’s debate here. It is sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Here’s more: Gordon Wood and Woody Holton are both distinguished scholars of the American Revolution. But they approach the founding very differently, as you can […]
When Should History Teachers Invoke Donald Trump?
Using a history classroom to promote a political agenda is pedagogical malpractice
David Barton’s son talks slavery and Black history with sportswriter Jason Whitlock. It is a train wreck.
Tim Barton, the son of David Barton, appeared on sports writer Jason Whitlock‘s show “Fearless.” The show is part of Glenn Beck’s “Blaze Media.” Whitlock joined Blaze Media because he “wanted to partner with people who wouldn’t look at me […]
You Can’t Make Me Wear Pants, Either
If personal responsibility is so great, why isn’t it working?Â
Erin Bartram does history
Longtime listeners of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast may remember our interview with historian Erin Bartram in Episode 37: “Should You Go Grad School?” In that episode we discussed Bartram’s February 2018 blog post “The Sublimated Grief of […]
Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center just released the summer issue of its journal “Reclaiming 1776.” Let’s take a look.
Liberty University president Jerry Prevo begins the journal with a quote from John Adams: Before my God, I believe the hour has come. My judgement approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and […]
Anyone who wants to believe that Independence Day is a Christian holiday should read Frederick Douglass’s “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?” David Barton speaks at First Baptist-Dallas.
Yesterday was “Freedom Sunday” at First Baptist-Dallas. I have commented on this yearly service several times. Read my commentary here and here and here. My position on these patriotic services has not changed. In the past, First Baptist-Dallas pastor Robert […]
The Evangelical Lost Cause Comes to Orlando
“If we cannot justify the South in the act of Secession we will go down in History solely as brave, impulsive but rash people who attempted in an illegal manner to overthrow the Union of our country.” –Former Confederate General […]