The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music
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David Brat: Catholic, Calvinist, and Libertarian, Oh My!
The stunning upset of Eric Cantor by tea party candidate David Brat, a self-avowed Calvinist…
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Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion
Few writers could to pick a theme as grand as the global interplay of democracy and religion and hope to utter the final word on the subject. In his latest book, Ian Buruma, a journalist and historian with over a dozen seminal books to his…
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An inflated sense of purpose seems to be part of the American genome…
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