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The Last Temptation
How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.
by
Michael Gerson
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The Atlantic
on
March 8, 2018
Voices in Time: Epistolary Activism
An early nineteenth-century feminist fights back against a narrow view of woman’s place in society.
by
Louise W. Knight
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
February 22, 2018
Are White Evangelicals Sacrificing The Future In Search Of The Past?
The religious profile of young adults today differs dramatically from that of older Americans.
by
Daniel Cox
via
FiveThirtyEight
on
January 24, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. Spent the Last Year of His Life Detested by the Liberal Establishment
King was roundly denounced for his stances against the Vietnam War and injustices north of the Mason-Dixon line.
by
Zaid Jilani
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The Intercept
on
January 15, 2018
MLK Now
The canonical image of Martin Luther King Jr. neglects many of his most important intellectual, ethical, and political critiques.
by
Brandon M. Terry
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Boston Review
on
January 9, 2018
Board Games Were Indoctrination Tools for Christ, Then Capitalism
The very weird tale of how American board games used to teach you how to get to heaven, and later, how to make bank.
by
Robert Rath
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Waypoint
on
November 30, 2017
The Role of Sports Ministries in the NFL Protests
A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.
by
Paul Putz
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
October 17, 2017
Washington National Cathedral to Remove Stained Glass Windows Honoring Confederates
The debate over confederate iconography arrives in the closest thing the U.S. has to an official church.
by
Michelle Boorstein
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Washington Post
on
September 6, 2017
The Summer of Love Ended 50 Years Ago. It Reshaped American Conservatism.
The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.
by
Neil J. Young
via
Vox
on
August 31, 2017
Our Trouble with Sex
A Christian story?
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
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New York Review of Books
on
August 17, 2017
What Politicians Mean When They Say The United States Was Founded As A Christian Nation
Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.
by
Sam Haselby
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Washington Post
on
July 4, 2017
A “Thorough Deist?” The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin
Historian Thomas S. Kidd examines the tension between Benjamin Franklin's deism and his frequent religious rhetoric.
by
Thomas S. Kidd
via
Age of Revolutions
on
June 5, 2017
Why Conservative Evangelicals Have Lined Up for Trump
It’s a match made in heaven.
by
Molly Worthen
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The Atlantic
on
May 1, 2017
Father Worship
Hamilton is less a new vision of the past than a translation of the sacred stories of American civil religion into the vernacular.
by
Peter Manseau
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The Baffler
on
September 6, 2016
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Dried Up
How nativism and racism shaped the national movement towards Prohibition.
via
BackStory
on
January 1, 2016
The Meaning of Life
What Milton Bradley started.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
May 14, 2007
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter written from prison remains one of his most famous works.
by
Martin Luther King Jr.
via
University of Pennsylvania
on
April 16, 1963
How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America
On the grim legacy of Ronald Reagan.
by
Margaret Grace Myers
via
Literary Hub
on
August 13, 2025
The Decline and Fall of Christianity in America
If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its decline: obsolescence.
by
Daniel N. Gullotta
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The Bulwark
on
July 1, 2025
Why Everyone Hates White Liberals
1988 was a pivotal year in how “white liberals” are perceived by their fellow Americans.
by
Kevin M. Schultz
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
June 25, 2025
America’s Broken Commonwealth
The nation’s founding myth was based on faith and solidarity – but it also contained the roots of today’s democratic crisis.
by
Rowan Williams
via
New Statesman
on
May 22, 2025
Schoolhouse Crock
In every generation, charlatans come along with a plan to make education better by spending less money on schools.
by
Jennifer C. Berkshire
via
The Baffler
on
January 2, 2025
The Forgotten Epidemic
The bishops once used their influence to encourage nuclear disarmament. Can they do so again now?
by
Alexander Stern
via
Commonweal
on
December 21, 2024
The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism
Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.
by
Thomas Zimmer
via
Democracy Americana
on
December 16, 2024
Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals
The psychiatric hospitals promoted by Thomas Story Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix were quickly overcrowded and underfunded — a failure that haunts us today.
by
Robert Kirkbride
via
Places Journal
on
December 10, 2024
The Stories Hollywood Tells About America
How three movies set on the Fourth of July reproduce popular myth, but reveal even more through what they leave unsaid.
by
Emily Tamkin
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New Lines
on
July 4, 2024
Trails of Tears, Plural: What We Don’t Know About Indian Removal
The removal of Indigenous people was a national priority with broad consensus.
by
Jeffrey Ostler
via
Humanities
on
July 2, 2024
Deep States
The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.
by
Wilfred M. McClay
via
Claremont Review of Books
on
May 31, 2023
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The GOP Can Thank Suburban N.Y. For its Slim Control of The House
How a red wave in a solidly blue state helped tip the balance.
by
Stacie Taranto
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Made By History
on
November 28, 2022
When Christmas Started Creeping
Christmas starts earlier every year — or does it?
by
Bill Black
via
Contingent
on
November 8, 2022
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