What is happening in Evangelical Land? How evangelicals turned Mike Johnson on Ukraine aid? Jim Wallis's "false white gospel" What will evangelicals do

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30.04.2024

Lying for injustice in Louisiana

From 1994 to 2007, eight judges of Louisiana's 5th Circuit turned down 5000 petitions from poor prisoners, without reading them.

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30.04.2024

REVIEW: A Life in Books

A memoir of reading, a memoir of joy

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30.04.2024

Mike Barnicle, Dan Barry, and Mike Lupica remember Jimmy Breslin

Library of America just sent me a copy of Dan Barry's edited collection Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings. I grew-up reading Breslin, the quintessential

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29.04.2024

Sunday night odds and ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Paul Berman excuses the Columbia students, but not the faculty. A new documentary on the work of

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28.04.2024

Song of the Day

Mechanicsburg to Nutley to Roanoke to Grand Rapids, and back to Mechanicsburg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU2Yuga9gjs

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27.04.2024

The Nostalgia Factory

What YouTube’s rolling out we may actually need!

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27.04.2024

Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing

This week's Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing

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27.04.2024

What is trending this week at CURRENT?

Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Nadya Williams, "REVIEW: The Exvangelicals" Colleen Vasconcellos, "Funeral Food" Russell Arben

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26.04.2024

The lost social justice ethic of the temperance movement

Temperance poster published by the Dominion Scientific Temperance Committee, 1912 This essay is cross-posted from the Anxious Bench. When even the most

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26.04.2024

Life on Turkey Mountain

The world of my boyhood is gone. But that doesn’t mean I’ve stopped longing for it.

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26.04.2024

Evangelical roundup for April 25, 2024

What is happening in Evangelical land? How will the Mike Johnson-Marjorie Taylor Greene breakup affect Trump? The evangelicals who pushed Mike Johnson to

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26.04.2024

Nikki Haley wins nearly 17% of the vote in the Pennsylvania GOP primary

Nikki Haley is no longer running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. But that did not stop her from getting 16.5% of the

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25.04.2024

Robert Kagan on antiliberalism and Christian nationalism

Here is an excerpt from Kagan's book Rebellion: How Antiliberalism is Tearing America Apart. The excerpt is published today at The Washington Post: Trump

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25.04.2024

Historian Christopher Brown is not the only one calling for the resignation of Columbia University president Minouche Shafik

Earlier today we called your attention to Columbia University history professor Christopher Brown's call for the resignation of president Minouche Shafik.

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25.04.2024

Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Jenna Ellis face more indictments

This time it's interference in the 2020 presidential election in Arizona: Here is Yvonne Wingett Sanchez at The Washington Post: An Arizona grand jury on

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25.04.2024

John McWhorter on the Columbia University campus protests

McWhorter is a Columbia University professor who is teaching classes amid the pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Here is a taste of his piece today at

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25.04.2024

REVIEW: Fragile Objects

Katy Carl’s stories revive and renew the spiritual vision of Flannery O’ Connor

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25.04.2024

Columbia history professor Christopher Brown says the NYPD does not belong on campus

Christopher Brown, the esteemed historian of slavery and abolition at Columbia University, recently spoke, draped in his Oxford University gown, at a

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25.04.2024

By refusing to condemn antisemitic student protests, Biden sounds eerily like the “there were fine people on both sides” statement by Donald Trump in response to White supremacists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.

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24.04.2024

REVIEW: The Exvangelicals

There’s more than one way to deconstruct

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24.04.2024

The former publisher of The National Enquirer testified today in the People v. Donald Trump.

Today we were reminded of the sleazy tabloid world in which Donald Trump lived as he ran for president in 2016. David Pecker, Trump's longtime friend

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24.04.2024

Reactionary protesters and Harvard bigotry

This week's reactionary protests at Harvard and Columbia have a long, ignoble history.

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24.04.2024

New antisemitism: "A Hatred Immune to Education"

When it comes to antisemitism in America, it's out with the old, in with the new.

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24.04.2024

The Author's Corner with Mauricio Castro

Mauricio Castro is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of Latin American Studies at Centre College. This interview is based on his new book, Only a

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23.04.2024

Happy Earth Day!

Today is Earth Day. The first Earth Day was commemorated on April 22, 1970. I am reminded of these words from Neil Pogue's book The Nature of the

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23.04.2024

Funeral Food

In times of loss, the gift of food meets many needs

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23.04.2024

Evangelical roundup for April 21, 2024

What is happening in Evangelical land? Non-denominational evangelicals and the poor David French on the diversity of evangelicalism World Vision remembers

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23.04.2024

Ode to enthusiasm

Our time seems less likely to produce or appreciate a Keats, and that is unfortunate. Many people spend much of their time being critical or angry.

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23.04.2024

Kristi Noem auditions for the role of Trump's VP

Did anyone watch Dana Bash's interview with South Dakota governor Kristi Noem on CNN yesterday? Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSSOmzXRzWI If you

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Blessing of Unicorns: Choosing a Christian college, the joy of reading, care for others, (dis)ordered desires

FILM FORUM: Civil War, III

Essential Latin for graduation season

The New York Times swings and misses on abortion, again

FILM FORUM: Civil War, II

The encouraging work of Upper House in Madison, WI

FILM FORUM: Civil War, I

Needed: A New History of Rural Working-Class Conservatism

Celebrating the publication of Kathryn Milne, Inside the Roman Legions, 264-107 BCE

I'll be back next week!

Evangelical roundup for April 29, 2024

Lying for injustice in Louisiana

REVIEW: A Life in Books

Mike Barnicle, Dan Barry, and Mike Lupica remember Jimmy Breslin

Sunday night odds and ends

Song of the Day

The Nostalgia Factory

Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing

What is trending this week at CURRENT?

The lost social justice ethic of the temperance movement

Life on Turkey Mountain

Evangelical roundup for April 25, 2024

Nikki Haley wins nearly 17% of the vote in the Pennsylvania GOP primary

Robert Kagan on antiliberalism and Christian nationalism

Historian Christopher Brown is not the only one calling for the resignation of Columbia University president Minouche Shafik

Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Jenna Ellis face more indictments

John McWhorter on the Columbia University campus protests

REVIEW: Fragile Objects

Columbia history professor Christopher Brown says the NYPD does not belong on campus

Not-so-fine people

REVIEW: The Exvangelicals

The former publisher of The National Enquirer testified today in the People v. Donald Trump.

Reactionary protesters and Harvard bigotry

New antisemitism: "A Hatred Immune to Education"

The Author's Corner with Mauricio Castro

Happy Earth Day!

Funeral Food

Evangelical roundup for April 21, 2024

Ode to enthusiasm

Kristi Noem auditions for the role of Trump's VP

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