Gregg Andrews is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University. This interview is based on his new book, Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853–1920 (LSU Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Hard Times in an American […]
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The Author’s Corner with Adam Laats
Adam Laats is Professor of Education and History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. This interview is based on his new book, Mr. Lancaster’s System: The Failed Reform That Created America’s Public Schools (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024). JF: What […]
“The New Testament…condemns personal wealth not merely as a moral danger, but as an intrinsic evil”
Here is a taste of David Bentley Hart’s recent piece at Jacobin: Most modern (and especially most American) Christians are quite accustomed, for instance, to thinking of Christianity as a fairly commonsensical creed as regards the practicalities of life. On […]
Are liberals ignoring the value of two-parent families?
In his column this week at The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof suggests that liberals need to talk about the value of two-parent families. Here is a taste: American liberals have led the campaign to reduce child poverty since Franklin […]
Cornel West explains his “jazz man” presidential candidacy
Here is West’s conversation with writer and Presbyterian minister Christopher Hedges: Some key West quotes from the Hedges interview: “I’ve always viewed myself as a jazz man in the world of ideas as well as a jazz man in politics, […]
Episode 47: What Are “Moral Issues?”
And does the Christian Right have a sole claim on them? Episode 47: “What Are ‘Moral Issues?’” dropped today. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser: If you […]
The Author’s Corner with Peter Boag
Peter Boag is Professor and Columbia Chair in the History of the American West at Washington State University. This interview is based on his new book, Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon (University of Washington Press, 2022). […]
The Author’s Corner with Joan DeJean
Joan DeJean is Trustee Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. This interview is based on her new book, Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast (Basic Books, 2022). JF: What led you […]