Tyler Austin Harper brings the evidence: The politics of the average American are not well represented by either party right now. On economic issues, large majorities of the electorate support progressive positions: They say that making sure everyone has health-care coverage is […]
2024 presidential election
Perry Bacon Jr. wants us to stop blaming progressives for Harris’s loss. Is he right?
Here is the Washington Post columnist: Center-left and establishment Democrats are trying to marginalize the party’s left wing in the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss last month, in some ways mirroring what moderates — including Bill Clinton — did in the late ’80s […]
Reverend William Barber on the election
William Barber has been described as “the closest person we have to MLK.” John Blake of CNN recently interviewed the leader of the Poor People’s Campaign. A taste: Critics say Democrats are elitist and look down on working-class people. What do you […]
Should felons be eligible for office?
Medieval historian Beth Allison Barr recently wrote: Current contributing editor and American historian John Haas sent along this response: I hear this sentiment from a lot of people, who just assume a blanket rule barring convicted felons from holding office […]
Election Day was 18 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Christian conservative talk show host Steve Deace supported Ron DeSantis during the GOP primary season. But Trump’s cabinet picks have satisfied all his objections. Here is his entire tweet: I backed DeSantis in the primary because Trump showed no remorse/awareness […]
The “Brahmin left” thinks the working class are idiots. “Thinking and behaving this way just strengthens the far right.”
Over at Jacobin, Edward Engelen interviews Joan C. Williams (White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America) and Thomas Frank (What’s the Matter with Kansas and Listen Liberal) about the working class and the 2024 election. Here is a taste: […]
Election Day was 17 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
“Sunday came for Tony Campolo.” Steve Rabey helped Campolo write his memoir. It is coming out in February with Eerdmans. Here is a taste of Rabey’s piece on Campolo at Baptist News Global: Tony Campolo, an influential Christian pastor, professor, author, […]
Election Day was 16 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Did Christians sway the 2024 election to Donald Trump? It’s certainly possible. George Barna, the favorite pollster of conservative evangelicals, says that 99% of “Spiritually Active Governance Engaged Conservative Christians” voted on November 5. (Note that George Barna and the […]
Election Day was 15 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Christian Zionist Joel Rosenberg interviewed Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump’s recent appointment to serve as ambassador to Israel. Huck is the first evangelical Christian to ever be appointed to this position. Here is a taste of the part of the interview […]
Election Day was two weeks ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Over at Christianity Today, Emily Belz reports on Christian sex-trafficking organizations opposed to the nomination of Matt Gaetz as U.S. attorney general. Here is a taste: Several Christian anti-trafficking organizations are publicly opposing President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for US attorney […]
Election Day was 13 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Steve Eng, the “advocacy director” of the National Association of Evangelicals, reflects on the presidential election: An NAE post-election statement encourages us to “pray for God’s guidance and blessing on those who have won, that they will be good stewards of the […]
Election Day was 12 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
MAGA charismatic prophets got in wrong in 2020. Biden, not Trump, won the presidency. Now they are claiming that they were just off by four years. Katherine Fung is covering it at Newsweek. One such prophet, Johnny Enlow, believes his […]
It’s hard to argue with Bill Maher’s take on the 2024 presidential election
Some things to think about:
Election Day was 11 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
World magazine is reporting that some evangelicals are concerned about Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general. But what fascinates me about Josh Schumacher’s piece at the conservative magazine is that none of the evangelicals he quotes in the […]
Trump and RFK Jr. just lost the New York Post
One of the nations oldest and most conservative newspapers, the New York Post, opposes Donald Trump’s pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services. Here is a taste of its editorial: The overriding […]
Brooks: “I’m also seeing many people who are…so imprisoned by their mental models, they can interpret these results only in identity politics terms”
Today at The New York Times David Brooks offers a stinging critique of identity politics in the wake of the 2024 election. Here are a couple of snippets: Why were so many of our expectations wrong? Well, we all walk […]
Election Day was 10 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
It looks like there is going to be some division in evangelical MAGA-land over some of Trump’s cabinet appointments. More than 80% of evangelicals voted for Trump and the president is “rewarding” them with an attorney general nominee who was […]
Are evangelicals “the cheapest date in politics?”
Some good analysis here from Jake Meador at Mere Orthodoxy. A taste: This is the broader point: There were two theories about evangelical voters in this election. One theory said that if we abstained or voted third party we were […]
“Gabbard is stunningly unqualified for almost any Cabinet post…but especially for ODNI. She has no qualifications as an intelligence professional—literally none.”Â
Tom Nichols is a former professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College and is now a writer a The Atlantic. Here is his take on Donald Trump’s appointment of former Democratic representative Tulsi Gabbard as director of national […]
David Blight: “We need to openly recommit to learning and teaching about the whole of our knowledge…as much or more than we stress our racial, ethnic and gendered parts.”
Yale historian David Blight has some wise words for elite institutions of higher education: “We” need to openly recommit to learning and teaching about the whole of our knowledge — our histories, our literature, our sciences, our social structures, as […]