I’ve enjoyed her work these past couple of years. I hate to see her go. A taste: This is my final column for The Times. In the memo I wrote three years ago when applying for this job after 11 […]
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The Internationalist Vision that Persuaded “America First” Isolationists
A 1940s foreign policy breakthrough is in jeopardy
Pivot Points: Chapter 15
Seeing the World and Enjoying *World*
Is “The Media” in the room with us now?
Stop saying “media”!
How the 2024 election will change American politics
Trump has just done what Reagan did in 1980 – but the magnitude of the realignment will depend on what Trump does next.
Bruce Springsteen or Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Dave Masciotra compares Bruce Springsteen’s liberalism with Ta-Nehisi Coates’s progressivism: By the turn of the century, the New Jersey native had already established himself as a rock and roll legend. But his artistic reaction to 9/11 enhanced his importance. Less […]
Twenty years after his breakout speech, Obama is back tonight
Barack Obama is speaking at tonight’s Democratic National Convention. Twenty years ago, as a candidate for U.S. Senate, Obama delivered his breakout speech at the DNC in Boston. About three weeks before the 2004 convention, Obama was driving between Springfield […]
REVIEW: Richard Nixon’s Graceless Religion
Nixon sought redemption—but on his own terms
REVIEW: The Iconoclast
Jackson Lears’s lifelong quarrel with the meritocracy that produced him
Ben Sasse steps down as president of the University of Florida
From Sasse’s X feed: Dear Gator Nation and cherished friends, This isn’t an easy note to write but wanted to give you an update on our family. As many of you know, my wife Melissa suffered an aneurysm and series […]
The Presbyterian Church in America disinvites David French
Today The Arena blog at Current ran a piece by Marvin Olasky defending the Presbyterian Church in America’s decision to invite New York Times columnist David French to speak on a plenary panel at its upcoming General Assembly meeting in […]
Evangelical roundup for April 17, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicalism is growing in the United Kingdom. Are Southern Baptists breaking with Christian nationalists? More here. Evangelicals bringing water to Sudan: The Italian Evangelical Alliance celebrates its 50th birthday Rwandan evangelicals thirty years after […]
Nancy French, Ghosted—a conservative, interrupted
Nancy French’s memoir is a story of God showing love to the weak and redeeming creation while also calling fallible people to restore justice already here on earth.
Civil religion is different from Christian Nationalism
The frequent references to God in national life or even to a divine source of human rights are not necessarily the same thing as Christian nationalism.
REVIEW: The Crack-Up of the American Evangelical Church?
A historian finds herself nodding along with Tim Alberta’s hopeful vision for American evangelicalism
Evangelical roundup for January 18, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Micah Watson reviews Russell Moore’s Losing Our Religion. The soundtrack of white evangelicalism. The war in Gaza is making some Latino evangelicals question their support for Israel. Trump is not our savior: Evangelicals in […]
The U.S. economy is doing very well. Why are some progressive unwilling to accept this fact?
Over at The New York Times, economist Paul Krugman makes a “progressive case for Bidenomics.” Here is a taste: There are two big questions right now about the U.S. economy. One is why it’s doing so well. The other is why […]
REVIEW: Cultural Christians R Us
A close look at ancient Roman Christians shows us we’re not alone
FORUM: What Does Higher Education Need Now? Part Two
This is one crisis that must not go to waste
LONG FORM: An Indigenous Rights Reformer in the Age of “Manifest Destiny”
Isabel Crawford—a deaf Baptist missionary to the Kiowa—practiced a more excellent way