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.

My awakened soul has called me to alert my comrades to a number of unacceptably asleep individuals on the left who must be purged.

The three-fifths compromise reveals the intricacies of history and the care necessary when critiquing the actions of our forebears.

The Chinese understanding of World War II undergirds the claims they now make on the rest of the world.

We have to face the reality that our world is fragmented and the cohesion that civilizations had in the past is now practically non-existent.

The Confucius Institutes pretend to be a Chinese version of cultural institutions like the Alliance Française, but they are actually a propaganda machine.