Kevin McQueeney is Assistant Professor of History at Nicholls State University. This interview is based on his new book, A City without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans (University of North Carolina...
I want to highlight two thoughtful and compassionate articles out today that present Christian conservative arguments for caring for the most vulnerable among us. First, Leah Libresco Sargeant in The Dispatch argues that at the moment, while policies to aid...
Susan Brandt is a lecturer in history at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. This interview is based on her new book, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: What led you...
Peter Swenson is Charlotte Marion Saden Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. This interview is based on his new book, Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in...
Tyler Huckabee lists them at Relevant magazine: Believing in critical race theory Advocating for healthcare reform Believing women can lead in the church Advocating for refugees Voting for Democrats Click here to see how he unpacks these five points....
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...
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I know our patrons are eagerly awaiting the drop of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast patrons-only episodes. I am happy to announce that our first such summer episode, which focuses on Civil Rights Movement tourism, will be available on...
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Mark Goldberg is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston. This interview is based on his new book, Conquering Sickness: Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). JF: What led you...
I am not a scholar of the Civil Rights Movement, but I found Vann Newkirk’s piece on the Civil Rights Movement and health care to be compelling. Â (I would appreciate any insights from scholars of the Civil Rights Movement). Here...
I can’t put it any better than Catholic journalist John Gehrig. Writing at Commonweal: Republican lawmakers scrambling to repeal the Affordable Care Act are working overtime to make life harder for those already living on the edge. Under the GOP’s...
Seth Meyers has some fun while making a stinging critique of Trump and the GOP healthcare bill: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMhy9aE6tN4?ecver=2]...
Katelyn Beaty is the former managing editor at Christianity Today and currently serves the magazine as an editor at large.  She is pro-life, anti-Trump, and anti-Trumpcare. Over at VOX she explains her position. Here is a taste: As an evangelical who opposed Donald...
On May 4, 2017, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act, the first step towards fulfilling the GOP’s promise of “repealing and replacing” the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. But already what used to be a...
Episode 22 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast will drop on Sunday. Â Our guest is Professor Nancy Tomes of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Tomes is the recipient of the 2017 Bancroft Prize for...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6YS-Qozn9s&w=560&h=315] Just so we are clear, the American Health Care Act: Takes health insurance away from at least 24 million Americans; that was the number the CBO estimated for a previous version of the bill, and the number for...
Over at Christianity Today, Kate Shellnut reports on some interesting developments this week in the world of abortion politics. It turns out that the country’s most well-known progressive is defending a pro-life candidate for mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. At the same...
Today’s song is dedicated to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan in the wake of today’s PowerPoint presentation [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7b8ADhadJU&w=560&h=315] ...
