Category Archive: religion

My PhD at Marquette: The Human Cost of Academia’s Abusive Culture

One former PhD student’s harrowing experience points to an opaque and capricious system.

What Have We Done to Each Other?

In the time of COVID, we are all married to each other. But some of our spouses are sociopaths.

This Week’s Best Of: I Believe Anita Hill

  Lo these many years ago, a scruffy band of boho assholes with incomprehensible lyrics and a Burroughs […]

The World Is Ending, and I’m Terrible at My Job: “Winter Light” and “First Reformed”

Both films show how human faith falters in the face of planetary crisis. Only it’s not the Cold War anymore.

…Here I Am, Stuck in the Middle with Anthony Kennedy

Poor Anthony Kennedy. Masterpiece Cakeshop has literally pleased no one. Legal scholars left and right are united in […]

What We Can Learn from America’s Other Muslim Ban (Back in 1918)

President Trump’s January 27th Executive Order attempted to ban the entry of nationals from seven Middle Eastern countries […]

How Los Angeles Helped Make the U.S. an Evangelical Nation

Carey McWilliams once called Louis Adamic Los Angeles’ greatest “prophet, sociologist and historian” of the 1920s. Adamic loved […]

Dog Days Classics: John Brooke on Joseph Smith, Alchemy, & the Longue Durée

I entered my first semester of graduate school with supreme overconfidence. It was August 2001, three weeks before […]