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What is going on with the Southern Baptist sexual abuse investigation?
In case you missed this, the Southern Baptist Convention has announced that the federal investigation into the Convention’s treatment of sexual abuse survivors has come to an end. Here is Liam Adams at The Tennessean: A historic federal investigation into […]
Alan Jacobs on that First Things piece on Wheaton College
A disgruntled 2014 Wheaton College graduate named Daniel Davis took a shot at his alma mater last week in the pages of First Things. You can read it here. I don’t want to give too much attention to what I […]
Ibram X. Kendi moves to Howard University. His Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University is closing.
Here is BU Today: Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), says he has decided to leave BU to join Howard University in Washington, DC. CAR will close when its charter with the University […]
Jacoby: Marxism got lost in the academy
According to historian and public intellectual Russell Jacoby, Marxist scholarship is alive and well, but it has failed to reach ordinary people. Here is a taste of his Jacobin piece, “American Marxism Got Lost on Campus“: But specialization also entailed […]
Election Day was 5 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
It seems like there are two kinds of Trump evangelical voters. Those who voted for Trump as the “lesser evil” and those who saw Trump as the candidate that God favored. Blogger Samuel Sey seems to fall in the former […]
Election Day was two days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Over at The New York Times, Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham write: “Mr. Trump is not only the leader of the Republican Party but also the de facto figurehead of conservative American Christianity.” *** The Christian Right is not alone […]
“If Democrats are keen to defend democracy they would do well to stop talking about it”
Everyone is saying that the 2024 election is a referendum on the fate of American democracy. Some progressive Christians are currently traveling through swing states on a “Faith and Democracy” tour. Based on the scholarly interests of the academics involved […]
Simply Irreducible
The complexities of any life defy our penchant for abstraction
Trump on the policy proposals in Project 2025: “They are extreme, I mean they are seriously extreme”
If you want to a get a sense of The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025,” check out our coverage of last Monday’s “Policy Fest,” a Heritage event held in conjunction with the Republican National Convention. The following organizations serve on the […]
Covering the Heritage Foundation’s “Policy Fest”
The Heritage Foundation, the organizing responsible for Project 2025, is hosting a “Policy Fest” today at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. You can watch here. The opening video shows Biden stumbling over his words at the recent presidential debate. […]
Oklahoma announces a “complete overhaul” of its social studies curriculum. The state is relying on an “A-List Executive Review Committee” of conservative activists
Here is the Washington Examiner: Oklahoma’s top education official is overhauling the state’s social studies curriculum to emphasize American exceptionalism to combat what he says is left-wing messaging that teaches children to “hate America.” In a document obtained by the Washington Examiner, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction […]
Some on the Christian Right are unhappy with the 2024 GOP platform
Today the GOP platform committee met in Milwaukee. As we noted over the weekend, there was some debate over whether the platform should have a statement calling for a national ban on abortion. Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, does not […]
Cornerstone University responds to our story on faculty cuts and the termination of humanities and arts programs
Earlier this week, we called your attention to Cornerstone University’s decision to fire tenured professors and terminate all humanities and arts programs. Get up to speed here. Yesterday, WOOD TV-8 the Grand Rapids NBC affiliate, did a story on our […]
American Historical Association: “Media accounts of a politically charged war for the soul of social studies are overblown”
I missed this piece when it was first published in Time back in March. It is written by Jim Grossman of the American Historical Association and three AHA researchers. A taste: For the past half-decade, amid overheated rhetoric contesting the […]
Robert Kagan on antiliberalism and Christian nationalism
Here is an excerpt from Kagan’s book Rebellion: How Antiliberalism is Tearing America Apart. The excerpt is published today at The Washington Post: Trump not only acknowledges his goals, past and present; he promises to do it again if he […]
Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Christian Nationalist?
America’s founding meant something very different for King than it does for today’s Christian Right
Are the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission really that different?
I just read Zine Magubane’s review of Kenan Malik’s Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy at Catalyst. Malik argues that both the 1619 Project and Donald Trump’s “1776 Commission” fail to recognize the importance […]
Chad Connelly: Those who criticize David Barton do not possess true Christian wisdom and “hate freedom.”
Over at Politico, Tim Alberta, author of the new book The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals In An Age of Extremism has published an excerpt from his book exposing “bogus historians” Chad Connelly and David Barton. Here […]
What is going on at The Ohio State University?
And I am not talking about three straight football losses to Michigan. John Sailer of the National Association of Scholars, a political conservative education advocacy organization, recently obtained 800 pages of “Diversity Faculty Recruitment Reports” from The Ohio State University. […]