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Jon Meacham

“You can’t love your country only when you win”

John Fea   |  March 10, 2024

I am on the road this month so my reaction to news stories has been a bit slower than usual. Today I finally got caught up on the responses to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address: Watch the entire […]

Allen Guelzo and Jon Meacham at Gettysburg’s Remembrance Day Ceremony

John Fea   |  November 22, 2022

It wasn’t just about Confederates reenactors. Watch:

Is November 2022 the most important election since 1850?

John Fea   |  October 26, 2022

As I type this, I am watching presidential historian Jon Meacham on CNN. He is saying that the 2022 midterm elections are the most important elections since the 1850s. Why? Because the rule of law is on the ballot. Michael […]

Bill Maher defends AHA president James Sweet and it is hilarious

John Fea   |  September 17, 2022

“Being woke is like a magic moral time machine where you judge everybody against what you would have done in 1066 and you always win.”–Bill Maher Yes, of course the past informs the present. But that is only part of […]

As promised, Jon Meacham will lecture at Samford University

John Fea   |  March 20, 2022

Back in November, I wrote a piece at Current titled “Canceling Jon Meacham.” Here is a taste of that piece: …I thought about Meacham’s visit to Messiah, a Christian university with strong ties to American evangelicalism, when I learned that […]