With Limits: Dusk Sets on the American Frontier
A review of Greg Grandin’s book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in...
Make Paradise Great Again; or, the Most Subtle of the Beasts
Where paradises fall, so shall serpents be found: Snakes as awkward symbols of American defiance.
Charcoal in an Empty Room: On Mary Beard’s How We Look Now
Iconoclasm can be a method of radical critique
America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion
An excerpt from America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion with an introduction by the author
Ethics of the Graveyard: Terry Eagleton on Death
A review of Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
Strange Characters; or, the Antecolumbian Imaginary
Ed Simon on how pre-Columbian contact theories play with a story of America that can be told and retold.
In the News: From Santa Muerte to Saint Leonard Cohen
A round-up of recent religion news.
In the News: #MeToo, Goopification, Polemical Flatulence & much more!
A round-up of recent religion news.
Seems like Straw to Me: On Garry Gutting’s Talking God
Ed Simon reviews Talking God: Philosophers on Belief by Gary Gutting
In The News: In Sickness and In Wellness
A round-up of recent religion news.
In the News: Clip-clippety-clip
A round-up of recent religion news.
In the News: Protests, Polemics, and Pastries
A round-up of recent religion news.
The American Apocalyptic Sublime and the Twilight of Empire
Ed Simon pulls at the thread of eschatomania linking an apocalypitic puritan poem to today's news and literature.
In the News: Voting, Protesting, and Distracting
A round-up of recent religion news.
The Savior’s Friends: On Tom Bissell’s Apostle
Ed Simon reviews Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell
In the News: Pulse, Pulpits, and Podiums
A round-up of recent religion news. Continue Reading →
In the News: Freud, Beyoncé, R’hllor, and more!
A round-up of recent religion news.
In the News: Profiling, Prince, Peaceniks and more!
A round-up of recent religion news.
The Remembrance of Amalek
King Philip's War and the many beginnings and ends of sacred violence in America. By Ed Simon.
The Great God Pan Still Lives
Ed Simon reviews Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell.
In the News: Elvis, Thoreau, Oprah, and more!
A round-up of the week's religion news.
In the News: Bernie, Bagels, Buddahs, and more!
A round-up of the week's religion news.
In The News: Poetry, Puritans, Politicians and more!
A round-up of the week's religion news.
In the News: Saints, Slavery, Celibacy, and more!
A round-up of the week's religion news.