Peter Roady is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah. This interview is based on his new book, The Contest over National Security: FDR, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American Politics (Harvard […]
political discourse
We have now entered the “go to hell” phase of the 2024 presidential race
I guess this is a logical outcome when politics becomes spiritual warfare. š I’ll let Meryl Kornfield of The Washington Post take it from here: Former president Donald Trumpās running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, doubled down Wednesday on […]
The Author’s Corner with Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson is Sydney L Mayer Associate Professor of American History at the University of Oxford. This interview is based on his new book, Heir through Hope: Thomas Jefferson’s Lifelong Investment in William Short (Oxford University Press, 2023). JF: What […]
Jay Green responds to criticism of his essay on Christian public discourse
Jay Green’s Current piece,” The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse” has drawn a lot of attention–good and bad–on social media this week. Here is Jay’s gracious response to those who engaged with the essay. Stay tuned. In the spirit […]
Jay Green on Christian political discourse and the liberal tradition
I hope you get a chance to read historian Jay Green’s piece today at Current. Green writes: “I donāt think there has been a time in my life when the need to secure and reenergize the liberal tradition has been […]
On “vicious political disagreement” and civic life
Here is a taste of Quinta Jurecic‘s piece at The Atlantic: Recently, pundits and journalists haveĀ tendedĀ toĀ frameĀ worriesĀ over the presence of violence in American politics as a question of whether the United States is slipping into a second civil war. There are […]
Thinking in paragraphs
Jonathan Jacobs, a philosophy professor at John Jay College in New York City, wants his students to think in paragraphs. He is profiled at The Christian Science Monitor. A taste: …he pushes first-year students in his classes at John Jay […]
Words with no meaning
“Cancel culture.” “Wokness.” “Critical Race Theory.” “Socialism.” We are debating these issues and we have no idea what they mean. Here is a taste of Hamilton Nolan at In These Times: To attempt to have any kind of good faith […]
The New Republic gives Eric Metaxas a platform
The magazine is hosting a “conversation” between court evangelical Eric Metaxas and conservative writer Matt Labash titled, “An Epic Debate on Trump and True Evangelicalism.” The whole thing is pretty disgusting. Here is a taste of Metaxas’s side of the […]