Here is Thomas Chatterton Williams at The Atlantic: Matt Walsh would like you to know you’ve been lied to.Last month, the right-wing provocateur appeared on Megyn Kelly’s show to discuss his new video series, Real History With Matt Walsh. “When you really start getting into it,” Walsh told Kelly, “you realize that, wow, they really lied about everything.” He begins the series by examining the practice of chattel slavery, he said to Kelly, “because this is, we’re told, the original sin” of the United States. In Walsh’s account, the left believes that “America was built on slavery, and it has no right to exist, and every white American carries, somehow, that legacy, that guilt in their blood”; therefore progressives feel they have the “moral justification to just do whatever they want” to white people.

The Way of Improvement Leads Home highlighted several popular posts last week, including Trump's controversial image of the Obamas, responses to his anniversary message on the Mexican-American War, and various evangelical roundups. Additional topics included Don Lemon's arrest and discussions surrounding evangelicals' beliefs and critiques on mocking as a form of discourse.

Italian evangelicals are responding to Sicilians affected by Cyclone Harry. *** Nearly 90% of evangelical pastors would not perform a same-sex wedding. (Nearly 84% of “Black Protestant”…

I visited The Way of Improvement Leads Home archives to see whether we have posted anything about Providence Christian College, a Reformed liberal arts school in Southern California. I found this a…

What is happening today at the intersection of Evangelicals and politics? Christianity Today breaks down New York’s new assisted suicide bill with Dr. Lydia Dugdale of Columbia University&#82…

What is the difference between “fortress thinking” and “pilgrimage thinking”? How do these modes of thinking shape the academy today? In this episode, Rhonda and Douglas Jac…

Becca Rothfield was a book critic at The Washington Post. She recently lost her job after the Post cut its books section. We posted about that here. In a recent piece at The New Yorker, Rothfield w…

What is happening today at the intersection of Evangelicalism and politics? Megachurch pastor and court evangelical Jentezen Franklin is the latest conservative evangelical to denounce Donald Trump…

Over at Commonweal, one of my favorite culture critics, George Scialabba, reflects on the state of American democracy under Trump. He writes, “Democracy can survive an ignorant and inflamed e…

Over at Commonweal, one of my favorite culture critics, George Scialabba, reflects on the state of American democracy under Trump. He writes, “Democracy can survive an ignorant and inflamed e…

I wrote about Jennifer Welch’s claims about evangelicalism last month, but I thought I would revisit this topic after reading Christianity Today’s Bonnie Kristian at The Free Press. Her…

Kenneth W. Noe is Draughon Professor of Southern History Emeritus at Auburn University. This interview is based on his new book, Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend: Reconsidering Lincoln as Comm…

Noah Eber-Schmid is Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. This interview is based on his new book, Founding Fanatics: Ex…

The quote in the title of this post comes from The Atlantic writer David Graham. Here is a taste of his piece, “When the Two Sides of the Culture War Meet”: Last night, during Super Bow…

Is Catholicism, or, more generally, Christianity, compatible with capitalism? Some thinkers try to harmonize the two systems. But some classical, free-market, pro-individualism liberals, such as Lu…

Musbah Shaheen, a professor of higher education who was teaching a college class at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst titled “Embracing Diversity,” decided to show a clip of conse…

In 2023, Multnomah University, a well-respected Bible college in the evangelical world, merged with Jessup University, an evangelical Christian college in Rocklin, California. Then, as Bob Smietana…

1 likes, 0 comments - slbrownfoundation on February 10, 2026: "If you’re in the Fox Valley on Feb 25, don’t miss our very own @johnfeahistory. He will be speaking on faith and the founders of our nati...

What is happening today at the intersection of Evangelicalism and politics: Here is the sermon I heard on Sunday at the evangelical megachurch I attend in Madison, WI. I hope you will watch it: ***…

What is the difference between “fortress thinking” and “pilgrimage thinking”? How do these modes of thinking shape the academy today? In this episode, Rhonda and Douglas Jac…

What is happening today at the intersection of Evangelicalism and politics? Evangelicals respond to the Super Bowl: *** William Wolfe compares the President of the United States and a Democratic re…

Noah Eber-Schmid is Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. This interview is based on his new book, Founding Fanatics: Ex…

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Great Books and the American Left. Washington Post book critic Ron Charles on getting laid off. Caroline Janney reviews Matthew Pinsker, Boss…

Here it is: Today [Feb. 2, 2026] marks the 178th anniversary of our Nation’s triumph in the Mexican-American War—a legendary victory that secured the American Southwest, reasserted American soverei…

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Great Books and the American Left. Washington Post book critic Ron Charles on getting laid off. Caroline Janney reviews Matthew Pinsker, Boss…