Mayday’s Demise and the Rise of our Gloomy Empire
May 1st 1628 was the second time that Thomas Morton had erected a Maypole at…
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“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan
If the words “corporate” and “mindfulness” no longer sound strange together, it’s partly because of the career of Chade-Meng Tan. A…
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How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul
Haggard rarely name-checked the Lord in his songs, but he didn’t need to.
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Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto
Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps…
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Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?
What more important natural resource could there be than the air we breathe every minute…
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The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba
On a historic trip to Cuba this week, and in the wake of a terrorist…
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The Revolutionary Spirituality of ‘Hamilton’
Last month, the Broadway cast of Hamilton dazzled with a live Grammy performance, and last…
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History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope
From Blood Eagle to Blood Libel to “Wilding,” myths of the violent Other have underwritten violence across centuries.
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Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad
And it came to pass after the captivity of Israel and the desolation of Jerusalem…
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“Of Kings and Prophets” Producers—a Christian, a Muslim and a Jew—Refuse to Sanitize the Bible
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan stated: “Religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion…
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