Reformed and antimodern
Some classic works on the origins of modernity give pride of place to Calvinism. D. G. Hart will have none of it.
Inventing the "Great Awakening," by Frank Lambert
A lot of parties have put a lot of stake in the Great Awakening, the wave of religious enthusiasm which swept up and down the colonial seaboard in the early 1740s....
Lincoln’s paradoxes
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, by Allen C. Guelzo...
The Cousins' War, by Kevin Phillips
The 20th century has ended much as it began, with ethnic hostilities in the Balkans, sectarian violence in China, a change of power in South Africa, "reform" in Russia and economic power in the han...