Hunter Price is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University. This interview is based on his new book, Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty (University of Virginia Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
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Abortion and prohibition: will the 2024 election be like 1932?
This year’s treatment of abortion by both major parties is reminiscent of how both parties engaged with the issue of alcohol regulation in 1932, the last election before the end of Prohibition.
The Author’s Corner with Matthias André Voigt
Matthias André Voigt is Part-Time Lecturer in Modern American History at Free University Berlin. This interview is based on his new book, Reinventing the Warrior: Masculinity in the American Indian Movement, 1968-1973 (University Press of Kansas, 2024). JF: What led […]
The Author’s Corner with Ian T. Iverson
Ian T. Iverson is Associate Editor of the John Dickinson Writings Project. This interview is based on his new book, Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War (Kent State University Press, […]
Some Evangelicals Are Looking for a Reason to Vote for Harris
She’s not giving them one
12 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Why haven’t conservative evangelicals, especially those of the MAGA variety, remained mostly silent about Donald Trump’s line about Arnold Palmer’s genitals? What happened to the Christian Right’s longtime concern about the coarseness of American culture? This morning I was writing […]
Bonhoeffer family to Eric Metaxas: “We are horrified to see how the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is…being distorted and misused…”
Eric Metaxas’s use of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s legacy has caught the attention of the Bonhoeffer family. We’ve covered Metaxas’s misuse of Bonhoeffer here: Charles Marsh unleashes a devastating assault on court evangelical Eric Metaxas’s misuse of Bonhoeffer as it relates to […]
Bret Stephens offers Kamala Harris a closing argument
The New York Times columnist writes a closing argument for Harris: My fellow citizens, When the tumultuous history of this year’s presidential election is written, future generations will note that the choice boiled down to this: the certainty of division […]
Interview: Nadya Williams on her new book, Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic
What difference does the imago Dei make for how we think about mothers and children?
The Author’s Corner with Anthony J. Stanonis
Anthony J. Stanonis is an independent historian of the American South. This interview is based on his new book, New Orleans Pralines: Plantation Sugar, Louisiana Pecans, and the Marketing of Southern Nostalgia (LSU Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
The Author’s Corner with Rachel Louise Moran
Rachel Louise Moran is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas. This interview is based on her new book, Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America (University of Chicago Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
THIS Is What Christian Nationalism Looks Like
Will the ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ be required reading in Oklahoma schools?
The Author’s Corner with Caroline Winterer
Caroline Winterer is William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor by courtesy of Classics at Stanford University. This interview is based on her new book, How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in […]
REVIEW: The Latino Century
An anti-Trump conservative makes his case—and his plea
The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth L. Block
Elizabeth L. Block is an art historian and a Senior Editor in the Publications and Editorial Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This interview is based on her new book, Beyond Vanity: The History and Power […]
Blessing of Unicorns: Helene, hope, Lewis and Tolkien get graphic, faith and higher education, and conferences
Another Blessing of Unicorns upon your day—reads that made me stop, reflect, weep, or rejoice this week.
Blessing of Unicorns: What’s in a name, Christmas in September, poetry, mom writers, the Midwest, and more!
Another week, another fabulous herd!
REVIEW: The Salt of the Universe
Amy Leach reckons with her heritage while staying faithful to it
The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth A. Athens
Elizabeth A. Athens is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut. This interview is based on her new book, William Bartram’s Visual Wonders: The Drawings of an American Naturalist (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024). JF: What led […]
We Are Insufficiently Immunized Against Nazis
The Third Reich’s script would please far too many today