Culture
The States Project
Maine: A Spiritual Frontier Opens for Business
A Spiritual Frontier Opens for Business.
By Brook Wilensky-LanfordReview
Darwin, Hitler, and the Hijacking of Evolutionary Theory
Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory By Robert J. RichardsThe University of Chicago Press, 2013 Biology is not ideology. But with evolution, …
By Michael SchulsonInterview
Technology, Memory, and Jewish History: An Interview with Novelist Dara Horn
What are the proper limits of technology in our personal lives? Dara Horn’s new novel, A Guide for the Perplexed, takes up this question as …
By Rachel GordanReview
Pulled into the Maze: 12 Years a Slave
One of the most haunting scenes in the film 12 Years a Slave comes shortly after the main character Solomon Northup—now known by his enslavers …
By Rachel McBride LindseyEssay
Texas Textbooks: A Case Study for Creationism’s Staying Power
The Texas textbook wars have finally yielded a win for the Enlightenment. In November, the state school board delayed final approval of a biology textbook …
By Molly WorthenEssay
An Evolving Mormon Church Finally Addresses a Racist Past
Last Friday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) made history by confronting its own history. For the first time, the LDS Church …
By Max Perry MuellerInterview
The Intellectual Civil War within Evangelicalism: An Interview with Molly Worthen
Last month, Molly Worthen traveled to the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics to take part in a symposium for the inaugural Danforth …
By Tiffany StanleyEssay
Concerning “Goodbye Christ”: Langston Hughes, Political Poetry, and African American Religion
“Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.” Langston Hughes (1964) On the afternoon of November 15, 1940, Langston …
By Wallace BestExcerpt
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, 150 Years Later
On November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at the dedication of America’s first national cemetery, on the site of the battle that had turned the …
By Stephen ProtheroEssay
Radical Mission: What is Aish HaTorah Trying to Teach Young Jews?
On my first visit to Jerusalem, in the summer of 2011, I asked an ultra-Orthodox Jew for directions to the nearest ritual bath. The man …
By Michael Schulson