Sociology professor informing and empowering people on contemporary issues of race, religion, and American culture, using my reading, research, and life experience.
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at Davidson College | President, Association for the Sociology of Religion | President-Elect, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion | Race, religion, power, inequality, and social change
We write about things called religion in places identified as part of the United States.
A newsletter connecting the past and present of American politics from a historian who has written extensively about civil rights, religious nationalism and modern conservatism.
Exploring how politicians, the mass public, and cats are alike: They're all fickle, doing whatever suits them regardless of whether it makes sense, making life difficult for those who want to analyze them.
Covering far-right extremism, sandwiches, and everything in between.