Eerdmans recently invited me to join ethicist and diplomat Sean Casey to think about some connections between his book Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom (2023) and my book Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. Casey was the...
In this episode we talk about the connections between liberal Protestantism, American foreign policy, and the Cold War in mid-20th-century America. We discuss these themes through an examination of the life of former U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959) John Foster...
Here is CNN’s Kylie Atwood: A stack of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are sitting at the State Department but the Trump administration is preventing him from accessing them, according to State Department officials familiar with the messages. Traditionally,...
Here is The Times of Israel: US President Donald Trump said Monday that his 2017 decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the city as the capital of Israel was done for evangelical Christians. “And we moved the...
All of these points come from Ed Yong’s recent piece at The Atlantic: “How the Pandemic Defeated America.” We under-fund public health. Our health-care system is weak. Too much of what we do spend on healthcare is wasted. We have not...
Here is The Washington Post: Foreign ministers representing seven major industrialized nations failed to agree on a joint statement Wednesday after the Trump administration insisted on referring to the coronavirus outbreak as the “Wuhan virus,” three officials from G-7 countries told The...
I wonder if this will move any GOP Senators to vote for witnesses. It should. Here is Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt at The New York Times: President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to...
Great insight here from Fareed Zakaria: Three months ago, President Trump suddenly withdrew U.S. forces from northern Syria that were, in part, thwarting Iran’s efforts to dominate the country, declaring, “Going into the Middle East is one of the worst decisions ever made...
Back in March 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo compared Donald Trump to Queen Esther, the Queen who persuaded the king of Persia not to destroy the Jews. Watch this: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lZiNeP-6uQ&w=560&h=315] It now looks like the new Queen Esther...
A few evangelical leaders were not happy when Trump pulled out of Syria. Most of them, however, have made peace with the decision. Court evangelical Franklin Graham, who originally opposed the move, now says that he respects Trump’s decision and...
Here are the four historians: Elizabeth A. Cobbs : Melbern Glasscock Chair in American history at Texas A&M University and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Kyle Longley: Snell Family Dean’s distinguished professor of history and political science...
David J. Dzurec is Chair and Associate Professor of History at the University of Scranton This interview is based on his new book Our Suffering Brethren: Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019). JF: What...
Here is a taste of SMU’s Jeff Engel‘s piece at The Washington Post: Lives were lost every day of the war — in the Soviet Union, one life every four seconds — but D-Day holds a special place in American memory...
In case you haven’t seen it yet, here is the official White House statement on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and our ongoing U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia America First! The world is a very dangerous place! The country of...
Today I will be teaching John Winthrop’s sermon A Model of Christian Charity to the teachers in the Princeton Seminar. You may know this as the famous “city upon a hill” sermon. Winthrop’s words have been used by several U.S presidents...
Here is Michael Gerson at The Washington Post: In the run-up to Helsinki, Trump actively advanced many important national objectives — of Russia. He claimed Crimea to be Russian, credited Putin’s denials of cyberaggression, attacked NATO, called the European Union a “foe,” openly supported Brexit, disparaged...
Here is Uri Friedman at The Atlantic: Donald Trump got little of substance out of his summit with Kim Jong Un. But that didn’t stop him from making a triumphant, demonstrably false claim about how things went. Trump declared in an early-morning tweet...
In case you haven’t seen it yet, here is the video Trump showed Kim Jong-Un the other day: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYsaC2CADs0&w=560&h=315] And then there are these videos: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSDQOyoXsfE&w=560&h=315] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbkI38Y38Ac&w=560&h=315]...
Former NBA player Dennis Rodman thinks he should get some credit for the upcoming summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. It appears he will be in North Korea for the historic meeting. Here is a taste of political...
From my friend Ron Nash: “President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States would “guarantee” Kim Jong Un’s safety at their planned summit meeting…..Kim appears to have seen this movie…” 🙂 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWkcKbBQkg&w=560&h=315]...
