This letter will appear in the October 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Signers include Anne Applebaum, Margaret Atwood, David Blight, David Brooks, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Early, David Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Todd Gitlin, Anthony Grafton, David Greenberg, Jonathan Haidt, Michael […]
Damon Linker
What John Bolton’s Testimony Will Reveal About Republican Senators
Here is Damon Linker at The Week: With it looking increasingly likely that Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won’t be able to prevent a vote in favor of calling witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Trump, the GOP finds itself […]
What Hath Trump Wrought?
Over at The Week, Damon Linker interprets the culture war under Trump. Here is a taste of his piece: On one level, [the Trump presidency] is a dream come true for the religious right — the prospect of it achieving a long-sought victory […]
Linker: Evangelicals are “Dreaming Small”
American evangelicals, according to Damon Linker at The Week, are on the defensive. Here is a taste of his piece “The Dwindling Ambition of the Religious Right“: The conservative evangelical Protestants who have long been the foot soldiers of the religious right […]
Evangelicals Support Trump Out of Fear and Weakness
Damon Linker nails it in his column at The Week. Here is a taste: No informed evangelical today seriously hopes for a reversal of same-sex marriage. (Even in the unlikely event that the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision affirming a right to […]
Linker: The United States Has Become “a madhouse, a freak-show circus…”
And Donald Trump is “its ringleader, but the rest of us gamely play along….” Here is a taste of Linker’s column at The Week: Every single event in our public life is now instantly swept up into the centrifugal whirlwind […]
Will a Post-Religious World Be an Improvement?
Writing at The Week, Damon Linker is not so sure. Here is a taste of his reflection on some recent polling data suggesting Christianity is in decline in America: Liberals tend to assume that those who have left religious traditions and […]
A Form of Populism I Can Believe In
Damon Linker nails it in his regular column at The Week. Here is a taste: The global elite think they’re sitting pretty. How wrong they are. Democrats keep telling themselves that Hillary Clinton “really” won the 2016 election (or would […]
The Benedict Option and Christian "Persecution" in America
Are American Christians being persecuted for their faith? I am not sure persecution is the right word. No one is coming into the homes of Christians with weapons threatening to kill them if they do not publicly denounce their faith. […]
Damon Linker on How to Save Liberal Arts Education
Damon Linker thinks that the humanities and liberal arts will survive, but not with the “prestige and power they acquired in the post-war university. The structural trends working against the humanities are just too strong.” These structural trends include: 1. […]
Is Barack Obama Professor in Chief?
This stuff on Obama’s Prayer Breakfast seems to be having a very long shelf life. (I will be publishing a version of my earlier blog post at another website. It should be out soon–stay tuned).Now Damon Linker has weighed in […]