Yesterday on his blog, John Fea highlighted the chart that sociologist Ryan Burge had generated from the study done by FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) about colleges with the highest percentage of students who had been homeschooled. First,...
During the pandemic I participated in this movie. It is now available, at least for the moment, for free. It is worth your time:...
The title of Alexandra Petri’s column says it all. Here is a taste: After working very hard for years in the Trump administration, with special portfolios that included everything from Working Women to Peace in the Middle East (a subject...
Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman on the latest from Penceville: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday night made his most forceful attempt yet to separate himself from his former boss, Donald J. Trump, on the issue of certifying the...
Remember Donald Trump’s “National Garden of American Heroes?” Joe Biden just canceled it. Here is Zeke Miller at the Associated Press: President Joe Biden on Friday put the kibosh on his predecessor’s planned “National Garden of American Heroes” and revoked...
OK, I’ll admit it. Our “numbers” are a bit down here at the blog since Trump left office. We still get thousands of readers a day, but during the Trump era we often had tens of thousands of readers a...
Jim Garlow, one of the lesser-known court evangelicals, shared this video today at his public Facebook page. The date was May 3, 2017. I see the following court evangelicals schmoozing with their political savior as the band plays “New York,...
Great analysis here by John Harris of Politico: Though Biden is rarely described as gifted orator, his speech was a remarkable performance in part because it didn’t soar and largely didn’t even try to. In plain-spoken language, he depicted a...
Mike Pence’s Simon & Schuster-published memoir is scheduled for 2023, just in time for the next presidential election. The deal will put a $3-4 million dollar advance in Pence’s pocket. Here is CNN: Mike Pence has signed a multimillion-dollar, two-book deal...
The former president has a new website. Under the “About” tab we get an early glimpse of how Trump wants people to remember him. Here is the first paragraph: Donald J. Trump launched the most extraordinary political movement in history,...
Historian Julian Zelizer gathered an esteemed group of American historians at Princeton to assess the Trump presidency. Here is a taste of Jennifer Schuessler’s piece at The New York Times: From the day he took office, Donald J. Trump had...
Isaac Bailey is the James K. Batten Professor of Public Policy at Davidson College. In a recent piece at Politico, he describes what his son experienced at Erskine College, a Reformed Christian college in Due West, South Carolina. Here is...
Has the Trump era changed people? Or did Trump simply lift the veil of civility on American life, thus uncloaking who we really are? I am sure we will debate this question for a long time. Perhaps no politician has...
Pastors live busy and hectic lives. Most of them do their best to serve the spiritual needs of their congregations, but it is hard to shape the minds and hearts of the people God has trusted to their care when...
Jessica Sidman’s piece at The Washingtonian shares “four years’ worth of stories about VIP visits and grooming protocols, palm-greasing, rotten vegtables, and that time they lost Steve Mnuchin’s coat.” It’s a very interesting and revealing essay. Here is a taste:...
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First The New York Times, now Politico. Everyone seems to be talking about evangelical prophets. Here is Julia Duin’s Politico piece: Perched on a cream-colored armchair,Johnny Enlow, a 61-year-old, California-based Pentecostal pastor with short-cropped gray hair, a trim beard and...
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham seems to think so. And, sadly, he may be right. If Marjorie Taylor Greene can get elected to Congress, why not Lara Trump? Both her and Greene embody GOP values right now. Here is Ray...
Over the weekend we posted the statements of most of the U.S. senators (all Republicans) who voted to acquit Donald Trump on Saturday. You can read that post here. It is a long post, so we created a cheat sheet:...
If Mitch McConnell is right, the Democratic House managers proved that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The former president survived his impeachment trial because forty-three senators, all Republicans, voted to acquit. Several of these senators, including Ted Cruz,...
