I’ve been reading some of the flood of books coming out ahead of next year’s centennial of the start of World War I. There’s something

Thanks to Jason Lief for covering for me yesterday. I spent the better part of a week earlier this semester in Amsterdam and it seems

I’m down at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College this weekend for a conference on . . . Billy Graham. The festivities opened last

I know I promised to finish up some reflections on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvinism this week, but yesterday’s 50th-anniversary commemoration of Martin Luther King’s

Late summer means slogging through tasks you signed up for under fairer prospects and distant deadlines. For me that means writing an essay on the

  My mind keeps circling back to Trayvon Martin—not to the person, admittedly, nor to the trial with its outrageous verdict. But to the Stand

On the road yet again this week, this time in St. Louis for a conference on early American history. On the way down we stopped

Every decade probably gets The Great Gatsby it deserves. The 1920s found the novel to be less telling a revelation of itself than author F.