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Paul Ryan: “If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality…then we’re not going anywhere.”

John Fea   |  May 27, 2021

Tonight the former Speaker of the House will give a speech at the Reagan Library in California. John McCormick of The Wall Street Journal reports: “Once again, we conservatives find ourselves at a crossroads,” Mr. Ryan will say, according to […]

The Equality Act and the Claims of Justice

Shirley Mullen   |  April 16, 2021

The Equality Act promises justice. For some religious communities, it threatens the opposite.

All four #1 seeds made the Final Four this year. What happened to Cinderella?

John Fea   |  March 31, 2025

All four #1 seeds made the NCAA Division One Men’s Basketball Final Four this year. The last time that happened was in 2008. Malachi Van Tassell, the president of St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, a team that made the […]

Independent thinking requires submission to authority

John Fea   |  October 17, 2024

I included this Matthew Crawford Hedgehog Review piece in my last Sunday Night Odds and Ends, but I thought I would call attention to it again in a separate post. Here is a taste of “Why Individualism Fails to Create […]

Socialism needs Christian ethics

John Fea   |  April 2, 2024

Dustin Guastella is director of operations for Teamsters Local 623. Check out his piece “Christianity, Morality, and Socialism” at Jacobin. We linked to this piece in Sunday night’s odds and ends. But after reading it more closely, I thought I […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  March 29, 2024

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What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  March 22, 2024

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What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  August 4, 2023

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Happy 15th birthday to The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog

John Fea   |  June 23, 2023

Fifteen years ago I was sitting in my room at the David Library of the American Revolution in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania and I wrote my first blog post at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. I had just published The […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  May 12, 2023

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What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  May 5, 2023

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We now know that Fox News lied to its viewers about the 2020 election

John Fea   |  February 21, 2023

I included this story in Sunday night’s odds and ends, but I wanted to call attention to it again. Here is Brian Stelter at The Atlantic; The other crucial metric Fox leaders were watching, of course, was the Nielsen ratings […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  January 27, 2023

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What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  December 16, 2022

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Bookforum will cease publication

John Fea   |  December 14, 2022

I checked Bookforum a couple times of week to prepare for our weekly “Sunday Night Odds and Ends.” The editors didn’t cover much history, politics, or religion, but I often found something worth reading. Sad to see it go. Here […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  October 21, 2022

Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, “REVIEW: The Need to Be Whole“ Marvin Olasky, “LONG FORM: A Wrinkle in Journalism History“ Mark Schwehn, “Academic Humility“ John Fea, “I Think I Just Committed Treason Greg […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  September 9, 2022

Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “How to Be an Activist Historian“ Timothy Larsen, “REVIEW: How’s that Post-Christian Thing Goin’ for Ya?“ Nadya Williams, “Gorbachev’s Legacy: Moscow (Still) Doesn’t Believe in Tears“ John Fea, […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  September 2, 2022

Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Timothy Larsen, “REVIEW: How’s that Post-Christian Thing Goin’ for Ya?“ AntĂłn Barba-Kay , “REVIEW: One Cheer for Purdy“ Michial Farmer, “LONG FORM: Treasure of the Broken Land“ Nadya Williams, “‘Joshua Was […]

What’s popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  August 12, 2022

Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “Remembering Ron Sider“ Jacqueline Doyle, “What Grows on Trees“ John Fea, “How to Be a Fascist Dictator“ Nadya Williams, “Bad Citizens in a Democracy“ John Fea, “With Every […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  August 5, 2022

Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “With Every Victory the Christian Right Becomes Less Christian“ Jay Green, “The Baptismal Vows of Michael Corleone“ Eric Miller, “These Truths? Which Truths?“ Adam Jortner, “The Joe Biden […]

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