John Fea

Executive Editor at Currentpub

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Historian @messiah_univ. Author of 6 books. Executive Editor of *Current*. Blogger and podcaster at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. #LGM

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Goodbye to a Four-Year Labor of Love

1 month ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

We can now rest easy, knowing we gave it a shotIt was the evening of September 17, 2020â€”Constitution Day. I was sitting outside a Microtel Inn in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania with Eric Miller, my longtime friend and collaborator and professor of history at nearby Geneva College. It was a chilly night, a clear sign that summer was on its way out. Iâ€™d come to Beaver Falls to deliver Genevaâ€™s Constitution Day lectures.
It's the last week of CURRENT

1 month ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Our little magazine closes-up shop at the end of the week, but not before our editors have a final say.
March 2025 - Current

1 month ago | currentpub.com | John Fea |Nadya Williams

All four #1 seeds made the NCAA Division One Men’s Basketball Final Four this year. The last time that happened was in 2008. Malachi Van Tassell, the president of St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, a team that made the […]Our little magazine closes-up shop at the end of the week, but not before our editors have a final say.
Did Patrick Henry really say "Give me liberty or give me death?"

1 month ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Here is Gregory Schneider at The Washington Post:Here’s what we know: On March 23, 1775 — probably in the afternoon — a self-taught lawyer named Patrick Henry arose in a little white church in Richmond and unleashed a scorching, wig-blasting, Flying V electric-guitar solo of a speech. It literally inspired the American Revolution. Here’s what we don’t know: Exactly what he said.
"The main divide in American politics today isn’t between liberals and conservatives or left and right. It’s between those who believe in the system and those who don’t."

1 month ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Here is Shadi Hmid at The Washington Post:The main divide in American politics today isn’t between liberals and conservatives or left and right. It’s between those who believe in the system and those who don’t. And sometimes it really does feel like a matter of belief. It’s a visceral divide about whether basic institutions of American life — from the federal bureaucracy and financial markets to academia and the mainstream media — are working or broken.
A Christian Palestinian journalist worked on "Arab Sesame Street." He has things to say about Trump's cuts to USAID funding

2 months ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and a graduate of Messiah University, the school where I teach American history. Some of you may remember his Current piece on the one year anniversary of the Gaza War. Here is a taste of his piece at The New Republic:When I was approached in 1994 by Lewis Bernstein of the Childrenâ€™s Television Workshop to participate in a joint Israeli-Palestinian production ofÂ Sesame Street,Â I was reluctant.
"If you oppose all tariffs, you are essentially signaling that you are comfortable with exploited foreign workers making your stuff at the expense of American workers."

2 months ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Chris DeLuzio represents Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times:Many of my constituents support smart tariffs, particularly ones that target China, and so do I. Watching my colleagues on the Hill, it’s clear we’re missing the mark. Democrats need to break free from the wrong-for-decades zombie horde of neoliberal economists who think tariffs are always bad.
Walter Lippman worried about a time when people “cease to respond to truths, and respond simply to opinions-what somebody asserts, not what actually is.”

2 months ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Check out Jeannette Cooperman’s essay at Common Reader on the late white-suited writer Tom Wolfe. She has some interesting thoughts on the so-called “New Journalism” of the 1960s and 1970s. A taste:Did Wolfe do such a good job capturing the present that he ruined our future? Consider the trajectory.
A new Gilded Age?

2 months ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Are the robber barons back? Here is Politico historian Joshua Zeitz:At his second inauguration, as President Donald Trump promised to usher America into a new â€śgolden age,â€ť he was surrounded in the Capitol Rotunda by a handful of tech billionaires whose companies account for roughly one-fifth of the market cap of U.S. public equities. It was a not-so-subtle sign that the second Trump administration will be staffed, advised and led by titans of wealth.
John Fea: History can teach us to be better than ourselves

2 months ago | post-gazette.com | John Fea

Today the study of history is used as a cudgel in the culture wars. Activists on both the left and the right cherry-pick from the past to advance political agendas. The late historian Bernard Bailyn called this “indoctrination by historical example.”Donald Trump, who recently revived his “1776 Commission,” weaponizes the past to consolidate power.

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