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What Is Wrong with David French?

Remember the kid in high school who snitched on the other kids smoking in the...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

A Genealogy of Alarm

Remember how bad the environment was? The leaders of the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, Audubon...

July 2020

July 10, 2020

Losing Whitefield

"Trust the science" has been a phrase used fairly often during the pandemic. Recent news...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

How the Vandals became Christian

This is not about Germanic tribes after the Christianization of the Roman Empire. It is...

June 24, 2020

Where to Put the Theodore Roosevelt Statue

Not there! New York City's Natural History Museum, with the blessing of Mayor Bill DeBlasio,...

June 05, 2020

Only the Amish are Amish, (practically) Everyone Else is Modern

The Amish have thick communities in which members are not autonomous but are deeply embedded...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

David French Must Have Jonah Goldberg Scratching His Head

French and Goldberg used to write for National Review but recently moved to an outlet...

May 21, 2020

I Just Wish Evangelicals Were Consistent

First, they rejected business: Finney preached even more explicitly against the mores of business. “The...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

David French Has a Theonomy Problem

At the risk of seeming obsessive, a little more attention to David French's political judgments...

April 20, 2020

What if POTUS Were a Drag Queen?

How righteous does David French think he is? Apparently, sufficiently so to question the character...

April 13, 2020

Pandemic Politics Before COVID-19

"Will I be infected by the virus?" is a question that guides most evangelical arguments...

April 03, 2020

Who Benefits when Evangelicals Publicly Ridicule Other Evangelicals?

Jonathan Merritt thought the readers of the Daily Beast needed to know how bigoted Franklin...

March 2020

March 18, 2020

Evangelical Hypocrisy Deepens

By now, the number of people who know about American evangelicals' hypocrisy in voting for...

February 2020

February 24, 2020

Increasing Subscriptions by Doing Good

I recently received this email message from Nikole Hannah-Jones. I don't believe she sent it...

February 12, 2020

Courage in the Age of Trump

Peter Wehner continues his opposition to the president by praising Mitt Romney's vote to convict...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Worries about the Imperial Presidency are Not New

Some think that defenders of President Trump's dealings with Ukraine are a threat to the...

January 21, 2020

When Racism Changed

In previous posts I have wondered about heightened attention to racism in the United States....

December 2019

December 31, 2019

A Quick Guide to Evangelical Elites

Wayne Grudem is not one: I am guessing a lot of my readers have never...

December 19, 2019

Boris Johnson and the Hypocrisy of British Evangelicals (not really)

With all the scorn directed at U.S. evangelicals over their vote and support for Donald...

October 2019

October 02, 2019

If You Love Karen Swallow Prior, Can You Find a Little for Her Boss?

Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s reputation only grows larger in proportion to Donald Trump's critics' need to...

September 2019

September 19, 2019

Virtue Laundering

As an alum of Harvard Divinity School, I regularly receive mass email messages from the...

September 17, 2019

Raiders Nation Reading Hour

Say what you will about the dust up between Sohrab Ahmari and David French and...

September 06, 2019

Trump is the POTUS that HBO Subscribers Deserve

I am still having trouble wrapping my mind around the very high moral standards that...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Lessons from the Bible about Immigration

Here's a passage I have not seen enter discussions about U.S. immigration policy and the...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

The Good (Tiger), the Bad (Kate), and the Ugly (Pence)

H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy."...

March 2019

March 27, 2019

Evangelical Politics: Same As it Ever Was

Jemar Tisby repeats the refrain that white evangelicals who support President Trump are hypocritical: In...

March 15, 2019

What Did Evangelicals Know and When Did They Know It?

The National Association of Evangelicals, one of the major institutional outlets for white Protestants who...

March 11, 2019

Moral Equivocation with Trump and Lincoln

Michael Sean Winters comes out hard against the contested comments of Ilhan Omar about Israel...

March 08, 2019

Semioticians All

When I was in college, I studied film and took a few classes in film...

January 2019

January 16, 2019

Skin in the Scholarly Game

I, just like John Fea, thought the Bruce Springsteen Broadway show was terrific, and I...

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