Good News to All Nations: An Interview with Lauren Turek
David interviews Lauren Turek on her new book about evangelicals and human rights
View ArticleCOVID Vaccines, Nuclear Weapons, and Scientific Progress
I started college as an astrophysics major. I had always loved Star Wars and Star Trek, math and science, and particularly the mind-blowing parts of physics like quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory...
View ArticleGod’s Cold Warrior
Miles Mullin reviews John Wilsey's new religious biography of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, whose "liberal Protestant faith informed and formed his thinking about diplomacy and the...
View ArticleReading Women Authors on the History of Science
I wrote last month about my new course on the United States in Global Perspective that I am teaching through the lens of Science, Technology, and Medicine. What I didn’t mention is that all the books...
View ArticleHuman Rights and the “Surprising Greatness” of a Born-Again President
Two recent biographers argue that Jimmy Carter was actually a significant U.S. president, in part because of a commitment to international human rights that was likely rooted in Carter's faith as a...
View ArticleAsia and the Making of Modern American Evangelicalism: An Interview with...
Historians have long argued that American evangelicalism is a transatlantic religious movement. However, according to Helen Jin Kim, that’s only half the story. Kim, who is Assistant Professor of...
View ArticleThe Growing Crisis of Anomie in the United States: Learning from Hungary’s...
Today we welcome a guest contribution from Patrick Leech to the Anxious Bench. Patrick Leech (@PatrickCLeech) is a historian of the global Cold War, with an emphasis on Hungary and Eastern Europe. He...
View ArticleDerry Girls, Nostalgia, and the 1990s
This week my husband and I watched the last episode of Derry Girls. I had watched most of the series when it first came out, but somehow, I had missed this fictionalization of one Northern Ireland...
View ArticleBerlin and Baylor: Models for Memorializing a Difficult Past
You would not think that the land of beer and sausages would help me with my summer health goals. But Germany is also the land of public transportation. Suffice it to say, I walked a lot of Berlin over...
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