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 […]
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Columnist Tony Norman leaves the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tony Norman’s piece on Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama appeared at Current on our launch day–April 5, 2021. We are hoping our friend will now have more time to write for us! Here is a taste of his farewell column […]
What is popular this week at Current?
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 […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “A Savior Will Arise from Gettysburg and His Name Shall Be Mastriano“ Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, “Seeing Bathsheba“ Christina Bieber Lake, “Stranger Things: Not So Strange at All“ John […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “Trump Is Going Down and He Is Taking Evangelicals with Him“ Andrew F. Lang, “Democratic Spirit: Ulysses S. Grant at 200“ Kody W. Cooper, “Rethinking an Ethic of […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “Trump Is Going Down and He Is Taking Evangelicals with Him“ Vincent Bacote, “Wide Awoke at Wheaton“ Adam Jortner, “Nostalgia, Wokeness, and Fraggle Rock“ John Fea, “An Open […]
How you can support Current
We hope you have been enjoying Current this summer. If you haven’t done so already, check out our forum on the overturning of Roe v. Wade. I think the diversity of voices in this forum represents well the type of […]
What is popular this week at Current
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: FORUM: The End of Roe, Day One John Fea, “My Grandmother’s Patriotism“ FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Four David Tucker, “Should We Be Impolite? FORUM: The End of Roe, […]
I am truly humbled that you are reading Current
Don’t get me wrong–I am humbled that you are reading our work here at Current. I would be even more humbled if you became a patron. But the title of this post plays off of David Brooks’s recent piece at […]
Episode 42: “The Culture of Life”
Abortion and the final days of the 2004 election Episode 42: “The Culture of Life” dropped today. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser: If you like what […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: FORUM: The End of Roe, Day One FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Two FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Three FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Four John Fea, […]
We lifted the Current paywall for this week’s forum “The End of Roe”
Good morning. I hope you will spend some time this week checking out Current‘s four day series on the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Today, Monday, we have Felicia Song, Randall Balmer, David Tucker, Una Cadegan, and John Haas. And […]
Current writers will address the end of Roe
Next week at Current we will be running a multi-day forum on the overturning of Roe v. Wade. We have lined-up an impressive array of writers who will offer short commentaries on the decision from multiple perspectives. I am confident […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “The Trump Generation Is a Lost Cause“ Jeremy Sabella, “America’ Molech Moment“ Nadya Williams, “What Fruit Do Universities Bear?“ Nadya Williams, “Dinner and a Show: Summer Edition“ Adam […]
Our current needs at Current
Recently someone asked me about the most pressing financial needs at Current. Great question. Here are few: We are currently paying our writers, but we would like to pay them more! We are bringing-on some additional editors and copy-editors and […]
Episode 38: “The Johnson Amendment”
How to endorse a political candidate without endorsing a political candidate. Episode 38: “The Johnson Amendment” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser: If you […]
Like all little magazines, we can’t move forward much longer without additional support. Thanks for considering Current
In a piece on the tenth anniversary (1976) of Salmagundi, cultural critic Christopher Lasch (whose daughter Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is a Current contributing editor) wrote: The so-called little magazine, which addresses neither the mass market nor an audience of academic specialists, occupies a special position […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Daniel K. Williams, “Pro-Life and Pro-Guns?” Timothy Larsen, “Boyhood Revisited“ John Seel, “Is College Really Worth It?” Jonathan Den Hartog, “Scooby Doo and the Black Robe Regiments“ Nadya Williams, “The […]
A conversation with Felicia Wu Song, author of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
This week I joined Current editors Eric Miller and Felicia Wu Song for a conversation on Felicia’s new book Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age. The entire interview is available to Deep Water and Storm […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Jay Green, “The Strange Bedfellows of Anti-Woke Alarmism“ Daniel K. Williams, “What If Pro-Choice Politicians Acknowledged That Abortion Is a Moral Problem?“ Jonathan Den Hartog, “Scooby Doo and the Black […]