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On “vicious political disagreement” and civic life

John Fea   |  May 6, 2022

Here is a taste of Quinta Jurecic‘s piece at The Atlantic: Recently, pundits and journalists have tended to frame worries 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

John Fea   |  December 6, 2021

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

John Fea   |  June 3, 2021

“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

John Fea   |  April 5, 2021

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...

More thoughts on the Springsteen/Jeep Super Bowl commercial

John Fea   |  February 8, 2021

I think most Americans liked it: But there have been critics and some of them have found their way to my social media feeds. 🙂 Some do not like the ad’s Christian nationalism. (The chapel has a flag and a...

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