"Neoliberalism" is a big word that people use for a lot of things, and vanishingly rarely as a complimentary or even neutral term.  I tend to think it is a pretty bad analytic tool, but it does...

Sobering:

“Today, therefore, neither party represents the same types of places it did just 10 years ago. As such, the Democratic Party is now anchored in the nation’s booming, but highly...

John Gray always takes things too far, but the basic lesson he takes away from Tom Holland's book Dominion seems absolutely right to me:

Dominion presents a rich and compelling history of...

I just found this piece (in the NYT Style section, which is itself telling) and it seems to me a bit depressing.  Is one way that "writers" are able to survive in this economy, by selling the idea o...

This small article in the Washington Post today made me think.  These kind of crises in the Evangelical world suggest something of the tensions that evangelical elites, especially younger...

Great story about Baldwin v. Buckley, and incredibly powerful clip. “I am stating very seriously, and this is not an overstatement, I picked the cotton, and I carried it to market, and I built the...

This piece is saying what some of us have been saying for a few years, and what responsible scholars (like Hout and Fischer, whom she mentions in her piece and I do in mine) have been suggesting for...

"History serves as only the blindest and most stumbling guide to the future. America is not Rome. Donald Trump is not Commodus. There is nothing written into the DNA of a superpower that says that...

This essay is fine, mostly; but basically it is a long note for Moser to take home from the teacher, telling his parents how disappointed the teacher is in his biography.  That, from what she says...

I don't know who put it there.

A list, from 2017, of "Latin American Female Theologians you should know about."  If you're interested in theology, this is a way of helping expand (I...