Flannery Oâ Connorâs unfinished novel raises persistent questions
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On Gods that Fail
A secular DEI theology underlies the Claudine Gay scandalÂ
Evangelical roundup for January 15, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Trump’s legal problems are galvanizing evangelicals in Iowa. Thomas Kidd asks, “How ‘Evangelical’ are Iowa’s evangelicals? Jim Harbaugh: “Purpose-driven coach”: Iowa evangelical pastors back candidates. Shane Claiborne on Texas Governor Gregg Abbott and immigration: […]
LONG FORM: Field Notes from the Basic Seminar
The pathosâand consequencesâof our longing to be shiny happy people
Chris Rufo: “Intellectual historian” or “intellectual bully”?
Chris Rufo is a conservative activist whose claim to fame is an appearance on the old Tucker Carlson show on Fox News. That appearance caught the attention of then president Donald Trump. Since then, Rufo has become Ron DeSantis’s point […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: 29 rules for reading James Lasdun reviews Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an American Commune Robert Bellah: A socialist who insisted democracy needs religion. […]
Additional observations on admissions stories
The recent Supreme Court decision overturning the legality of affirmation action in Harvard admissions has been met with all kinds of reactions. There is hand-wringing and rejoicing. There is disdainful headshaking and disdainful crowing. A lot of that is about […]
Responding to the critics of my piece “Kid Gloves” (1619 Project)
It looks like my feature we published on Friday at Current received some attention on Twitter. I’m glad people are reading it and, for the most part, taking it seriously. For the record, here is everything I have written at […]
REVIEW: Bernie, Deneen, and a Left-Conservative Solution
What does our moment require? An aristocratic revolution? Or a democratic reformation?
Harry Potter sixteen years later
In 2007 I took a trip to the United Kingdom. Toward the end of the trip, I found myself in a small used bookstore in a quaint Scottish village. Needing something to read on the plane ride back, I spotted […]
REVIEW: A Brave New FeminismÂ
Human wellbeing requires a reassessment of âprogressâ
A Florida professor responds to the history wars in his state
On April 22, 2022, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 7. The “Individual Freedom” bill: Provides that subjecting individuals to specified concepts under certain circumstances constitutes discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin; revising requirements for […]
8th grade U.S. history scores continue to decline
Here is Sarah Mervosh at The New York Times: National test scores released on Wednesday showed a marked drop in studentsâ knowledge of U.S. history and a modest decline in civics, a sign of the pandemicâs alarming reach, damaging student […]
How to teach the history wars
I think it’s fair to say we are in the midst of another round of history wars. Today’s so-called “activist historians” invoke a usable past to preach political and social agendas, while more traditional historians (of all political persuasions–from Trotskyite […]
What is happening with DEI in colleges and universities?
I am hearing more and more stories like the one Tabia Lee tells at Compact. Here is a taste: This month, I was fired from my position as faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education […]
A message to Florida Republicans: Stop using the Western canon as a political pawn
Roosevelt MontĂĄs directs Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship program. Annie Abrams is a public school teacher. They believe that Florida governor Ron DeSantis and one of his lackeys, Christopher Rufo, are “destroying” liberal arts education. Here is a taste of their […]
Evangelical roundup for March 16, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land? Evangelicals love evangelicals. Black evangelicals are “caught between their faith and the long shadow of history.” The president of Northern Seminary resigns. Southern Baptists have been arguing about women in the church for a […]
REVIEW: What Hath Law to Do with Democracy?
In de Dijnâs history of freedom, the relationship is not entirely clear
“A pair of ancient mariners with a TV contract, condemned to tell their tale to everyone they meet”Â
This is how Marina Hyde of The Guardian described Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who have made millions on their story. Over at Politico, writer Joanna Weiss describes 2022 as “the year we all finally got […]
Steven Mintz: A liberal education is a “distinctively American article of faith”
Here is the University of Houston historian at his Insider Higher Ed blog: No longer does the âsimple advice to high schoolers to âgo to collegeââ suffice. What one studies and where one studies matter greatly in terms of return […]