James G. Chappel is Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University.
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James G. Chappel is Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University.
The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.
Capitalism hasn’t disenchanted the world. Like a bad lover, it beguiles us into spiritual desolation.
Martin Hägglund argues that only atheists are truly committed to improving our world. But people of faith and socialists have more in common than he thinks.
Taking better care of homeless retirees is part of feminism’s next big challenge.
How has neoliberalism become so closely linked with evangelical Christianity?
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