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Articles by Michael Schulson
Interview
What if the Israel-Palestine Conflict Cannot Be Solved? An Interview with Micah Goodman
The author of the Israeli bestseller “Catch-67” says, “If I overcome the dream of ending the conflict, then I can start doing what really matters ethically.”
By Michael Schulson
Report
In Jerusalem, a New Embassy Highlights Old Divisions
As violence roiled Gaza 40 miles away, the embassy inauguration seemed like nothing so much as a show—a piece of elaborate political theater.
By Michael Schulson
Report
Fifty Years Later, Religious Progressives Launch a New Poor People’s Campaign
Can they articulate an American liberation theology for the Trump era?
By Michael Schulson
Review
The Supernatural Pseudoscience of Nazi Germany
A review of Eric Kurlander’s “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich”
By Michael Schulson
Interview
How American Jews Became Israeli Settlers
In a new book, “City on a Hilltop,” historian Sara Yael Hirschhorn tries to understand what brought Americans Jews to the most contentious real estate on earth—and how their presence there shapes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By Michael Schulson
Interview
The Culture War and the Benedict Option: An Interview with Rod Dreher
Author Rod Dreher talks to Michael Schulson about his new book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.
By Michael Schulson
Report
How an Orthodox Rabbi Became an Unlikely Ally of the Christian Right
Shlomo Riskin is one of the most influential rabbis of his generation. In the last decade, he has quietly developed another project: outreach to Christians, and especially to conservative American evangelicals.
By Michael Schulson
Report
The Moral Tribalism of Contemporary Politics
My friends are a model of religious pluralism. Put them all in a room, and they’d look like the Parliament of World Religions—Buddhist, Muslim, Catholic, …
By Michael Schulson
Report
The Moral Vision of Bernie Sanders
Last September, Bernie Sanders arrived at Liberty University, in Virginia, to give a major speech about religion, faith, and the moral bankruptcy of the American …
By Michael Schulson
Review
Terrorism in the Age of the Internet
The Devil’s Long Tail: Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace by David Stevens and Kieron O’Hara Oxford University Press, 2015 Issue #12 of Inspire magazine …
By Michael Schulson