When a book’s dust jacket describes its author as an “award-winning investigative reporter” and the author begins by describing his work as “an investigative history of the modern Roman Catholic Church,” readers might expect that, by the end of the book, something strikingly new would have been revealed. But in this case (to borrow from
Jonathan Rauch is asking all the right questions. “Why should secular Americans, including many who feel they have a beef with organized religion, care about the state of Christian America?” for one. For another, “What happens to our liberal democracy if American Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions
REVIEW: ‘Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist’ by Liz Pelly Countless luxuries have become such commonplaces that we thoughtlessly forget them. We can control the temperature of our rooms with the click of a button, get deliveries of fresh food right to our door, and we have basically
The art of the deal: Most presidents, the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson writes, “implement only a handful of initiatives at a time that usually only become public knowledge once they have matured.” Not Trump. “I never get too attached to one deal or one approach,” he wrote in Art of the Deal. “I keep a
The Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), the field’s premier scholarly journal, has dedicated past issues to topics like the “various nuances through which water and design mix” and the “relationship between stories and architecture.” Last year, the journal landed on a different topic for its fall 2025 issue: The “ongoing Israeli genocidal campaign against Palestinians
In the three months since Donald Trump took the oath of office, he has launched one of the boldest revisions to U.S. foreign policy in this nation’s history. The flurry of new initiatives and surprising announcements has overwhelmed much of the commentariat’s ability to rationally analyze his presidency, but his goals for his second term
A gift for the King: NBA star LeBron James posted a 75-second video to his X and Instagram accounts last October that portrayed Donald Trump as a Hitler-loving racist and offered James’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. He said at the time he made the decision organically based on his “family and how they will grow