What accounts for the Supreme Court's shift away from the logic of the Lemon test?

Black Hawk Down tells a story that honors American soldiers, but also has a clear warning about what has become the American way of waging war.

Five contributors discuss Samuel Goldman's new book on the often-futile search for national cohesion.

Attention to civilizational questions may help us to grasp some of the reasons certain countries' policies reflect a consistency over time.

The kind of story-telling necessary to sustain any nation, though idealistic and over-simplistic, should not be dismissed as mere “useful fabrication."

Unity of the sort nationalists would like to see may be attainable, but it would require more than minor adjustments to trade and immigration policy.

We must reckon with the idea that neither the broken remnants of a woke covenant nor a hollow appeal to American civil religion will save us.

Goldman parses three answers to the question of American identity that could be called his “3 C’s”: covenant, crucible, and creed.

Goldman reminds us that the quest for uniformity leads to coercion. The more we try to agree, the more we disagree.

Deep in the heart of Roman Catholicism is an impulse to use papal authority against religious foes.