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Last week CURRNT ran a three reviews of Alexa Garland's movie *Civil War*. Get started here: currentpub.com/2024/05/01/fil…

Loyalty is an admirable human trait. In other ways, it can be a disservice to the rest of humanity. currentpub.com/2024/05/06/our…

'The father didn’t smile. He knew what we were playing at. He knew what we were becoming.' currentpub.com/2024/05/06/whe…

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Today at the Arena Current, I reflect in brief on the encouraging work of Upper House, into which I got a glimpse last week. currentpub.com/2024/05/01/the…

For the evening crowd: today Current, David Head presents Part II of our series on Civil War (linking part I below): Alex Garland gives us war without politics—or meaning.
Come back tomorrow for Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet's conclusion! currentpub.com/2024/05/02/fil…

Courage 'is what we will need most to operate well in the polis. We could use it in the workplace and at the protest and at lunch and anywhere else we’d rather blend in than take up some civic virtue and do something about co-workers and allies and friends.'

The restoration of our humanity may turn on one honest face. Check out Robert Erle Barham's piece 'Where the Wild Things Were': currentpub.com/2024/05/06/whe…

For the evening crowd: Marvin Olasky on NYT and abortion today at the Arena Current currentpub.com/2024/05/02/the…

Current David Head Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet ICYMI: John Haas series opener yesterday! currentpub.com/2024/05/01/fil…

Time to herd this week's Unicorns at Arena Current! Jeffrey Bilbro John Wilson Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP at The Priory) Dixie Dillon Lane's non-X half Chris Lane, Anna North on egg freezing, Peter J. Thuesen, and a review of Josh Ober's newest book on democracy as Civic Bargain! currentpub.com/2024/05/03/ble…

'We need to understand the political origins of financialization and neoliberalism. Existing accounts confuse cause and effect: financialization was the mechanism that allowed neoliberalism to take root.'—Brian Judge on DEMOCRACY IN DEFAULT buff.ly/44q8p5E

This is past due, but shout out to Tim Bailey The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History for connecting our EXCEL participants with John Fea and Joe Welch, NBCT back at our April Seminar. We also appreciate Roanoke Higher Education Center for their hospitality in working with Kay Hedrick The Wilderness Education Project. Awesome Work!

What the political history of a rural Georgia county can tell us about Trump's rise to power. Check out Daniel K. Williams's piece 'Needed: A New History of Rural Working-Class Conservatism*: currentpub.com/2024/04/30/nee…

We also have: Eric Metaxas & Sean Feucht at Columbia; evangelicals turning on Taylor Swift; Dr. Phil comes to a Houston megachurch; Liberty U uses the campus protests at Columbia to recruit; more from the 'be afraid, be very afraid' department; & more: currentpub.com/2024/04/29/eva…

In today's roundup we have: Mandisa's funeral; an evangelical church tackles suburban poverty; more on the NC pastor going viral; World Vision supports the Farm Bill; Italian evangelicalism, an evangelist leaves the Church of England; & more: currentpub.com/2024/04/29/eva…

I could listen to Mike Barnicle, Dan Barry and Mike Lupica tell stories about Jimmy Breslin all day. currentpub.com/2024/04/29/vet…

'...eight judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit turned down, without even reading them, 5000 petitions from poor prisoners—and only last year did a reporter finally dig out the facts and tell the story.' currentpub.com/2024/04/29/lyi… ProPublica