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Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. …
As a columnist for The Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn’t learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. …
We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, when freed-people and the federal government attempted to create an interracial democracy in the …
Even before the cataclysmic 2016 US election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself—yet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire …
On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon’s shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare …
Recent controversies around ESG investing and “woke” capital evoke an old idea: the Progressive-era vision of a socially responsible corporation. By the twentieth century, in fact, …
Michael Broyles shows how three key decades—the 1840s, the 1920s and the 1950s—shaped America’s musical future. In each, new styles of music combined with emerging technologies, …