u.s. exceptionalism

During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884 to, among other issues, discuss the establishment of the Catholic University of America, the…

I would never pick a fight with the formidable Michelle Goldberg, but I must pick a tiny bone in respect to her new take on what the Right is up to in the current public school wars. After aptly…

Garry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the ghastly Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando) that it is “theologically inconceivable” to implement real gun control in the…

But do we still think we’re more ethical?

Obama’s SOTU was a deft combination of centuries-old American exceptionalism and a decades-old consensus that can best be called “semi-Niebuhrianism.”

Is a black person’s life worth anything in America? Not as long as America remains “Exceptional.”

Bruce Springsteen channels John Winthrop.

Some history on the historian.

Eric Cantor says he’s “concerned.”

In speech at Liberty University, Bachmann conflates knowing Jesus with freedom from socialism.