Mike Huckabee hit a home-run at his recent appearance before his Focus on the Family friendly audience. Huckabee is appealing to many in socially conservatives circles, but does he have what it takes to unite the party and lead the Republicans to a victory against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton? As the race to the Republican primaries heats up, Fred Sanders and John Mark Reynolds think through why someone might or might not want to heart Huckabee.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Columbia University has sparked both reactions of appreciation and disgust from pundits across the media. While many have debated the political cost of his visit, questions about whether or not it was meritorious for Columbia to invite Ahmadinejad for educational reasons have been largely unaddressed. Was it good that Columbia invited Ahmadinejad for an exchange of ideas? What are the obligations of a university to the nation that it resides in? Should we as Christians even be concerned about the political ramifications that this visit has wrought on our home nation? John Mark Reynolds, Fred Sanders, and Paul Spears debate these questions on this first edition of Middlebrow: Where Big Ideas Undergo the Digital Martyrdom.