Nathan Robinson, the editor of Current Affairs, starts his interview with author Thomas Frank by quoting from Frank's 2016 book Listen, Liberal: “Now all

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21.02.2025

Lessons Not Yet Learned

There is still reason to hope

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21.02.2025

Are "progress" and "justice" just a "secularized form" of "providence"?

Over at Inside Higher Ed, historian Steven Mintz writes: "In a world increasingly shaped by secularism and scientific empiricism, a paradox emerges: the

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21.02.2025

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 5)

Addiction

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21.02.2025

Commonplace Book #343

Out of our faith in gold, we build ourselves the golden calf: Mammonism, capitalism, profit economy. And out of our drive toward power and violence and

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21.02.2025

On Frank Robinson, Earl Weaver, and the Baltimore Orioles

When I get the chance, I hope to read John W. Miller's book The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented and Reinvented Baseball. The Washington

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20.02.2025

Catoggio: "Republican voters have been rooting for laundry since 2015"

Here is Nick Catoggio at The Dispatch: The modern Republican Party isn’t conservative in any meaningful way. Any lingering doubt about that was

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20.02.2025

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 4)

Career to Careening

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20.02.2025

The Trump (and Musk) cuts to the federal government are taking their toll on American institutions and the people who work for them

JFK Library and Museum, Boston The slashing and burning continues: Terminations at the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Interior are having a major

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20.02.2025

Commonplace Book #342

All things that have been tried for the sake of renewal...in these decisive times, whether by individuals or groups, all the new goals that have been

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20.02.2025

REVIEW: Heavy Metal Nursing

Stay here. Feel this.

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19.02.2025

Commonplace Book #334

But my faith in Socialism (to which I think I can say my entire life bears testimony) has remained more alive than ever in me. In its essence, it has gone

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19.02.2025

Sunday night odds and ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Do beavers have souls? Christians against empathy Christianity Today has not received USAID funds

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19.02.2025

Commonplace Book #336

In the Protestant age, the promotion of Christian virtue ran parallel to the promotion of democracy but usually could be distinguished from it. Bringing

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19.02.2025

Glorious ruins: on fragility of magazines and other institutions

If little magazines are a public good, how do we ensure their continued existence?

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19.02.2025

What happened to the Kennedys?

Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the Health and Human Services secretary. Over at Politico, Peter S. Canellos wonders what his uncle Teddy

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19.02.2025

Listening to Lincoln on Presidents’ Day

"In these early days of Trump's second term, one recognizes the catastrophic consequences of unpunished lawlessness."

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19.02.2025

No Cat Is an Island

In ‘Flow,’ a world that’s almost ours helps us see our own

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19.02.2025

When it comes to religious history and public theology, J.D. Vance is "in over his head."

John Locke Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter gives the Vice President of the United States a history lesson and a lesson in

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19.02.2025

The problem with J.D. Vance's Catholicism

Here is Elizabeth Bruenig at The Atlantic: Late last month, hundreds of leaders from Catholic relief and aid organizations met for the annual Catholic

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19.02.2025

The Author's Corner with Yii-Jan Lin

Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. This interview is based on her new book, Immigration and

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19.02.2025

On the end of CURRENT

Today the founders of Current sent an email to our members. Here is a taste of that email: Dear Current Members, We are writing today with some

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19.02.2025

"Fear's a powerful thing. It can turn your heart black, you can trust. It'll take your God-filled soul and fill it with devils and dust"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8ZQkeZvzc&list=RDd812E8q7I4A&index=16

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19.02.2025

Commonplace Book #335

I had actually arrived at the conclusion that if there was any good life, and freedom from insecurity, and beauty, and knowledge, or leisure, then the men

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19.02.2025

Enjoy full access to CURRENT

As we close up shop here a Current, we invite you to explore what we've done over the past four years. No more paywall! Non-members now have access to:

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19.02.2025

"I think of churches as belonging to an eternal country"

27 Christian and Jewish groups are suing the Trump administration. Here is the Associated Press: More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups

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19.02.2025

Trump: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." What are evangelicals saying?

https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3liaehy3rq22n According to The New York Times, this quote has been attributed to Napoleon, but its origins

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19.02.2025

Beyond the fourth branch: reconsidering civil service independence

Civil service is operating too much like a fourth branch. That's a problem.

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19.02.2025

REVIEW: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union

When religious nationalism becomes a religion of nationalism

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19.02.2025

Denying Denialism

I am not denying climate change. I am skeptical that we know how to fix it.

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19.02.2025

Commonplace Book #333

What struck me most about the Russian Communists, even in such really exceptional personalities as Lenin and Trotsky, was their utter incapacity to be

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19.02.2025

David Brooks: "Trump really seems not to give a crap about the working class"

Here is The New York Times columnist: Over the past 20 years or so many of us social observer types have been writing about the horrific chasms separating

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19.02.2025

Our labor was not in vain

I've been a bit overwhelmed by the responses to the closing of Current. I am gratified that so many people are going to miss our little magazine. One of

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19.02.2025

Roads Not Taken: Evangelicals and Politics, 1998-2006

Here is a taste of a lecture I gave last week at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio.

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19.02.2025

ICE raids on churches--my thoughts in Christianity Today

Regardless of your stance on immigration, ICE arrests at churches are an act of disrespect that we should oppose.

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19.02.2025

This is what authoritarian regimes do

In case you haven't heard, the Trump White House has removed a searchable database of January 6, 2021 cases from the Department of Justice website. Here

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19.02.2025

Why are conservative evangelicals attacking the "He Gets Us" Super Bowl ad?

As I wrote yesterday, MAGA evangelicals need to invent controversies so they have something to talk about. They thrive on outrage. "Likes" and reposts

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19.02.2025

Does listening to audio books count as “reading”? A roundup of views

It's complicated.

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19.02.2025

Commonplace Book #338

A powerful religious apparatus compensates for a lack of justice and love. One can oppress the stranger, the widow, and the orphan and yet find

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19.02.2025

MAGA sets its sights on Wheaton College

Have you heard about this dustup? Read Kathryn Post's piece at Religion News Service. Here is a taste: On Friday (Feb. 7), Wheaton College, the

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Thomas Frank on "fake populism"

Lessons Not Yet Learned

Are "progress" and "justice" just a "secularized form" of "providence"?

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 5)

Commonplace Book #343

On Frank Robinson, Earl Weaver, and the Baltimore Orioles

Catoggio: "Republican voters have been rooting for laundry since 2015"

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 4)

The Trump (and Musk) cuts to the federal government are taking their toll on American institutions and the people who work for them

Commonplace Book #342

REVIEW: Heavy Metal Nursing

Commonplace Book #334

Sunday night odds and ends

Commonplace Book #336

Glorious ruins: on fragility of magazines and other institutions

What happened to the Kennedys?

Listening to Lincoln on Presidents’ Day

No Cat Is an Island

When it comes to religious history and public theology, J.D. Vance is "in over his head."

The problem with J.D. Vance's Catholicism

The Author's Corner with Yii-Jan Lin

On the end of CURRENT

"Fear's a powerful thing. It can turn your heart black, you can trust. It'll take your God-filled soul and fill it with devils and dust"

Commonplace Book #335

Enjoy full access to CURRENT

"I think of churches as belonging to an eternal country"

Trump: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." What are evangelicals saying?

Beyond the fourth branch: reconsidering civil service independence

REVIEW: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union

Denying Denialism

Commonplace Book #333

David Brooks: "Trump really seems not to give a crap about the working class"

Our labor was not in vain

Roads Not Taken: Evangelicals and Politics, 1998-2006

ICE raids on churches--my thoughts in Christianity Today

This is what authoritarian regimes do

Why are conservative evangelicals attacking the "He Gets Us" Super Bowl ad?

Does listening to audio books count as “reading”? A roundup of views

Commonplace Book #338

MAGA sets its sights on Wheaton College

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