William Hogeland on Herman Husband, the War of the Regulation and his new book, Founding Finance

Good reads pulled from The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Revealer and elsewhere.

By Natasja Sheriff From Tibet, Burma and India, the first of a weekly round-up of religion-related news from around...

By Ann Neumann In one-inch letters the headlines told us what we were seeing: SAVAGES.

From Varanasi, India, Meera Subramanian’s inner pragmatist ponders the meaning of strength and devotion as she witnesses the Hindu...

By Nathan Stradle It’s nice to think the truth is out there somewhere, because it gets pretty alarming looking...

By Joe McKnight Part 4 of a four part series comparing the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler,...

By Jack Downey A student group's reasons for uninviting Ann Coulter from a visit to Fordham University should...

Part three of Joe McKnight's series on the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler, and Iyad ag-Ghali, a...

From Beirut, Irina Papkova describes in the second of two posts how former political opponents are maintaining Lebanon's fragile...

From "The Eye," a short story by Alice Monro, excerpted from her new book of short stories, Dear Life,...

By Maurice Chammah The question of Zionism and whether or not you support it has for a while now...

"The relationship between Lebanon and Syria is intricate and complicated, and the chaos in Syria presents serious challenges for...

By Nathan Schradle: Let's talk about sex, baby.

Special for The Revealer: Alexander Zaitchik travels to Ecuador where he experiences the highs and lows of a local...

Are Americans becoming more decent to one other? Are we "prepared to be called back to decency?" Are there...

Childhood and Exile: Rebel Politics and the Politics of Hunger. This is the second in a series comparing...

Schradle's quick links: From Florida to charity, Mormon slurs to bullying, Vatican Evangelizing to H+ something special.

By Alex Thurston During the week of September 24, Saudi Arabian authorities detained and subsequently deported over 1,000...

By Joe McKnight One name kept repeating itself: Iyad ag-Ghali, leader of Ansar Dine. It seems to me his...

By Jeff Sharlet Just as the election blinds the press to the bigger, enduring story -- reality -- of...

"Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it."

By Austin Dacey The claims of the believer and the claims of the blasphemer, so-called, are symmetrical.The value motivating...

by Austin Dacey The trick with monotheisms is that competition comes not just from neighboring gods, but even from...